Simply put, unsustainable debt is helping to keep too many poor countries and poor people in poverty.

The struggle for your own character is the struggle for the nation's character.

We must teach our children to resolve their conflicts with words, not weapons.

We're all in this together is a far better philosophy than you're on your own.

Well, first of all, I think that a lot of the voters who are voting for the tea party candidates have really good impulses. That is, they believe that for years and years and years, the people with wealth and power or government power have done well and ordinary people have not. That's true.

If you voluntarily quit in the face of adversity, you'll wonder about it for the rest of your life.

Leadership means bringing people together in pursuit of a common cause, developing a plan to achieve it, and staying with it until the goal is achieved.