If you are focusing your anger at government, you are focusing your anger at all of us. Government is just a personification of this country.

Putin wants to reestablish Russian greatness, not as the Cold War, but in 19th century empire terms.

We cannot build our own future without helping others to build theirs.

Old or young, healthy as a horse or a person with a disability that hasn't kept you down, man or woman, Native American, native born, immigrant, straight or gay - whatever; the test ought to be I believe in the Constitution, the Bill of Rights and the Declaration of Independence. I believe in religious liberty. I believe in freedom of speech. I believe in working hard and playing by the rules. I'm showing up for work tomorrow. I'm building that bridge to the 21st century. That ought to be the test.

If you want to be forgiven, you have to extend forgiveness, even to people who aren't smart enough to ask for it.

The purpose of affirmative action is to give our nation a way to finally address the systemic exclusion of individuals of talent on the basis of their gender, or race from opportunities to develop, perform, achieve and contribute. Affirmative action is an effort to develop systematic approach to open the doors of education, employment, and business development opportunities to qualified individuals who happen to be members of groups that have experienced long-standing and persistent discrimination.

Don't you ever orget that in the end, our future is tied to people, that it's more about ideas than a tax.