True Excellence requires a worthy dream, a good Idea of how to realize it and the courage to risk failure to achieve it.

I am grateful to President George W. Bush for PEPFAR, which is saving the lives of millions of people in poor countries and to both Presidents Bush for the work we've done together after the South Asia tsunami, Hurricane Katrina and the Haitian earthquake.

We are a people of faith. We have been so secure in that faith that we have enshrined in our Constitution protection for people who profess no faith. And good for us for doing so. That is what the First Amendment is all about.

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

I have always believed that the decision to have an abortion generally should be between a woman, her doctor, her conscience, and her God.

All America loses when any person is denied or forced out of a job because of sexual orientation. Being gay, the last time I thought about it, seemed to have nothing to do with the ability to read a balance book, fix a broken bone, or change a spark plug.

By lifting the weakest, poorest among us, we lift the rest of us as well.