What's happening in Cuba is not a failure of the Cuban people. It's a failure of Fidel Castro and the Communists.

No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size.

We meant to change a nation, and instead, we changed a world.

Wouldn't it be better for the human spirit and for the soul of this nation to encourage people to accept more responsibility to care for each other rather than leaving those tasks to paid bureaucrats.

I'm not a politician by profession. I am a citizen who decided I had to be personally involved.

It ought to be remembered by all [that] the Games more than 2,000 years ago started as a means of bringing peace between the Greek city-states. And in those days, even if a war was going on, they called off the war in order to hold the Games. I wish we were still as civilized.

For centuries the Bible's emphasis on compassion and love for our neighbor has inspired institutional and governmental expressions of benevolent outreach such as private charity, the establishment of schools and hospitals, and the abolition of slavery.