Over time, the more we bring China into the world, the more the world will bring freedom to China.
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.
Throughout the Middle East, there is a great yearning for the quiet miracle of a normal life.
I have always believed that the decision to have an abortion generally should be between a woman, her doctor, her conscience, and her God.
You need to know that a member of Congress who refuses to allow the minimum wage to come up for a vote made more money during last year’s one-month government shutdown than a minimum wage worker makes in an entire year.
It appears that some school officials, teachers, and parents have assumed that religious expression of any type is either inappropriate or forbidden altogether in public schools; however, nothing in the First Amendment converts our public schools into religion-free zones.
We should scrub all of our federal regulations to find responsible ways to make life easier to small businesses, i want to be a small business president.
People should really take care when they vote, and pay more attention to what people say they’re going to do – instead of just how they feel about how things are going.
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.
I think what breaks people is not adversity; what breaks people is thinking that tomorrow is going to be just like yesterday. That’s what’s numbing – if you think you can’t change, you can’t be better. And I didn’t like that.
I will never let Israel down...
Edgar Wayburn has worked to preserve the most breath-taking examples of the American landscape. In fact, over the course of more than a half-century, both as President of the Sierra Club and as a private citizen, he has saved more of our wilderness than any person alive.
It’s the biggest public health problem in America, the rising rates of obesity among our young people and very heavy statistics among our adult population.
At the dawn of the 21st century, a free people must now choose to shape the forces of the Information Age and the global society, to unleash the limitless potential of all our people, and yes, to form a more perfect union.
Politics is not religion and we should govern on the basis of evidence, not theology.
If you come from a wealthy country with open borders, unless you seriously believe you can kill, imprison or occupy all your enemies, you have to make a world with more friends and fewer enemies – with more partners and fewer terrorists.
It was Mario Cuomo’s great gift and our good fortune that he was both a sterling orator and a passionate public servant. His life was a blessing.
I don’t know in my long life that I ever worked with anybody that has quite the combination of policy knowledge and concern, political skills, of a personal touch with people, and a sense of innate fairness that inspires confidence.
I don’t think I would have become President if it were not for my school music program.
People ought to be going over this, finding things they don’t like. Congress has clearly proved they can act in a hurry. If there’s something wrong with it, it can be amended. If something needs to be kicked in, it can be put in. If something needs to be taken out, it can be taken out.