I'm sure I spent more time in Texas than anybody else who had run for President recently.

We need a spirit of community, a sense that we are all in this together. If we have no sense of community, the American dream will wither.

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

I figured if I could get really good people who were going to be able to have a big impact in the world over the next decade to come together once a year for ten years and actually sign a pledge to take action themselves, if we did that every year for ten years we could do a lot of good in the world. That's the difference between my meeting and any other. If you don't want to promise to do something, don't come to my meeting, stay home.

You don't have to wait till your party's in power to have an impact on life at home and around the world.

Pessimism is an excuse for not trying and a guarantee to a personal failure.

We're not talking about a few rooms here with delicate personal matters involved.