The fact is, we'll never build a lasting economic recovery by going deeper into debt at a faster rate than we ever have before.

I am told that tens of thousands of prayer meetings are being held on this day; for that I am deeply grateful. We are a nation under God, and I believe God intended for us to be free. It would be fitting and good, I think, if on each inaugural day in future years it should be declared a day of prayer.

The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.

Form and Substance are opposite ends of the same coin.

I am an environmentalist. ... I am for clean air.

A university is a place where ancient tradition thrives alongside the most revolutionary ideas. Perhaps as no other institution, a university is simultaneously committed to the day before yesterday and the day after tomorrow.

There was a time when "sound as a dollar" was a description, not a joke.