The United States of America is the richest country in the world; yet we're the worst at taking care of poor people.

To make a small town achieve its potential, you need everybody. When a blind person carries a crippled person who can see, both of them get where they're going.

Politics is not just about voting one day every four years. Politics is the air we breathe, the food we eat, and the road we walk on.

The big shots are not the only ones who are important. Remember, you can't sell anything on Wall Street unless someone digs it up somewhere else first.

There's no job too big to benefit from a small town person's perspective, I discovered, just as there's no town too small for thinking big.

Who are we to say what's right for civilizations that were already thousands of years old when our own nation came into being?

The United States of America is the richest country in the world; yet we're the worst at taking care of poor people.