Learning improves in school environments where there are comprehensive music and arts programs. They increase the ability of young people to do math. They increase the ability of young people to read. And most important of all, they're a lot of fun.

So much of modern politics is focused not on honest differences of policy but on personal attacks.

You have to make a conscious decision to change for your own well-being, and that of your family and your country.

If no one consumes these products, people will stop roducing them. They will not build it if you didn't come.

People will vote for someone who [they perceive] is strong and wrong before they will vote for someone who appears weak but is right.

To build a twenty-first-century economy, America must revive a nineteenth-century habit--investing in the common, national economic resources that enable every person and every firm to create wealth and value.

The future belongs to those who are creative collaborators