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.

There are no easy answers' but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.

I believe now, as I alway have, that America's strength is in 'We the People.'

I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there's purpose and worth to each and every life.

The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of these United States are covenants we have made not only with ourselves, but with all mankind. Our founding documents proclaim to the world that freedom is not the sole prerogative of a chosen few. It is the universal right of all God's children.

You hear a lot of jokes every once in a while about 'Silent Cal Coolidge.' The joke is on the people who make the jokes. Look at his record. He cut the taxes four times. We had probably the greatest growth and prosperity that we've ever known. I have taken heed of that because if he did that by doing nothing, maybe that's the answer.

I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress.