“Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.”

No, I’m just a man committed to great ideas.

Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.

All great change in America begins at the dinner table.

It is time to realize we are too great a nation for small dreams. We’re not – as some would have us believe – doomed to an inevitable fate.

A leader, once convinced a particular course of action is the right one, must have the determination to stick with it and be undaunted when the going gets tough.

Our government needs the church, because only those humble enough to admit they’re sinners can bring democracy the tolerance it requires to survive.

We must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women.

A people free to choose will always choose peace.

Trust, but verify.

The federal government did not create the states; the states created the federal government.

We must reject the idea that every time a law’s broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.

Freedom is the right to question and change the established way of doing things.

Surround yourself with great people; delegate authority; get out of the way.

Democracy is worth dying for, because it’s the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.

Recession is when your neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours. And recovery is when Jimmy Carter loses his.

Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music.

The decisions we make dictate the schedules we keep. The schedules we keep determine the lives we live. The lives we live determine how we spend our souls. So, this isn’t just about finding time. This is about honoring God with the time we have.

It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind.

The person who decides what shall be the food and drink of a family, and the modes of its preparation, is the one who decides, to a greater or less extent, what shall be the health of that family.

We [with Bill Gates] started to make decisions about what we’d invest in. Then I actually started traveling for the foundation. I’ve probably been to India now eight times at least and Africa numerous times.

Because of the vulgar advent, I decided to give way and, by dark and cryptic sentences, tell of the causes of the future mutation of mankind; especially the most urgent ones, and the ones I perceived, and in a manner that would not upset their fragile sentiments.

Among the social networks, LinkedIn can be one of the most useful when it comes to cultivating critical, lucrative business opportunities, since it has a high concentration of business decision makers.

After a number of years dating, we decided we were good partners.

The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years.