The first thing I had to start with was, you know, we don’t have a war. We don’t have a depression, we don’t have a Cold War.
Behind every great man there stands a great woman. Behind every great woman is a great behind.
We need to be creating a world that we would like to live in when we’re not the biggest power on the block.
I try to be self-analytical, both to outline the mistakes I made in my life and try to explain why I did, and the things that on balance I did pretty well on.
Being gay, the last time I looked, had nothing to do with reading a balance book, fixing a broken bone or changing a spark plug.
You cannot have an integrated world and have your say all the time. America can lead the world towards that, but we cannot dominate and run the world in that direction. There is a big difference.
The best example of all, to me, that our problems are both personal and cultural and political and social is the whole condition of the middle class economically.
I mean my life was a combination of fascination with other people, with politics, and with policy, and the impact of government decisions on people’s lives and the life of our nation and the life of the world.
Great rewards will come to those who can live together, learn together, work together, forge new ties that bind together.
Today’s possibilities are not tomorrows guarantees.
There is no example on the planet of a successful economy with broadly shared prosperity and a shrinking, weak government.
People like change in general, but not in particular.
Anyone can want something; it’s those who believe in their goals that achieve.
Follow the trend lines, not the headlines.
The Reagan-Bush years have exalted private gain over public obligation, special interests over the common good, wealth and fame over work and family. The 1980s ushered in a Gilded Age of greed and selfishness, of irresponsibility and excess, and of neglect.
If you take advantage of the fact that technology abolishes distance, then you won’t need to go to India. Just go to Indiana.
We have no intention of abandoning the American people to unproven theories and extreme positions. We’re the people party and we’re going to stick up for the people.
In speaking powerfully and eloquently for mercy and reconciliation to people divided by old hatreds and persecuted by abuse of power, the Holy Father was a beacon of light not just for Catholics, but for all people.
I don’t like to use the word sacrifice.
Government is not the problem, and government is not the solution. We, the American people, we are the solution.