Effort, not ability, makes the biggest difference in achievement.

We will reduce the White House staff by 25 percent

A great democracy doesn't make it harder to vote than to buy an assault weapon.

The best example of all, to me, that our problems are both personal and cultural and political and social is the whole condition of the middle class economically.

In a fundamental sense, this debate about NAFTA is a debate about whether we will embrace these changes and create the jobs of tomorrow, or try to resist these changes, hoping we can preserve the economic structures of yesterday.

Climate change is more remote than terror but a more profound threat to the future of the children and the grandchildren and the great-grandchildren I hope all of you have.

In speaking powerfully and eloquently for mercy and reconciliation to people divided by old hatreds and persecuted by abuse of power, the Holy Father was a beacon of light not just for Catholics, but for all people.