What starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. If your anger is deep enough and strong enough, you learn that you can change those attitudes by excellence, personal gut performance.

I don't think that a leader can control, to any great extent, his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction.

I can take it. The tougher it gets, the cooler I get.

I wish I could give you a lot of advice, based on my experience of winning political debates. But I don't have that experience. My only experience is at losing them.

People react to fear, not love they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.

Americans admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garden. The Israelis have shown qualities that Americans identify with: guts, patriotism, idealism, a passion for freedom. I have seen it. I know. I believe that.

We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another.

Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.

Under the doctrine of separation of powers, the manner in which the president personally exercises his assigned executive powers is not subject to questioning by another branch of government.

We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another.