America is too great for small dreams.

Our American tradition of neighbor helping neighbor has always been one of our greatest strengths and most noble traditions.

If there's one thing the American people aren't lacking, it is courage.

We should measure welfare's success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added.

Status quo, you know, is Latin for 'the mess we're in'.

If you serve a child a rotten hamburger in America, federal, state, and local agencies will investigate you, summon you, close you down, whatever. But if you provide a child with a rotten education, nothing happens, except that you're liable to be given more money to do it with. Well, we've discovered that money alone isn't the answer.

Government is not the solution, but rather the cause of our problems.