The only preparation for prospering in the global economy is investing in ourselves.

The problem with ideology is if you got an ideology, you already got your mind made up, you know all the answers, and that makes evidence irrelevant and argument a waste of time, so you tend to govern by assertion and attack. The problem with that is that discourages thinking and gives you bad results.

When people are feeling insecure, they'd rather have someone who is strong and wrong rather than somebody who is weak and right.

Our land of new promise will be a nation that meets its obligations, a nation that balances its budget, but never loses the balance of its values.

$100,000 donors buy access to Congress and the White House. We believe it's long past time to clean up Washington.

Noting his mother's visit to Las Vegas the weekend before she died. She got to go to heaven four days early.

I got a letter from 13-year-old Ryan from Belfast. Now, Ryan, if you're out in the crowd tonight, here's the answer to your question. No, as far as I know, an alien spacecraft did not crash in Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947. And, Ryan, if the United States Air Force did recover alien bodies, they didn't tell me about it, either, and I want to know.