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

You can’t tax business. Business doesn’t pay taxes. It collects taxes.

Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15.

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.

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.

A man is known by his books, his friends and the mistakes he admits.

You will never grow if you can’t admit your wrongs and learn from your mistakes.

I’ll admit I’m not perfect I’m like an angel fallen from grace. I’ve been a sinner and a saint.

The more you observe politics, the more you’ve got to admit that each party is worse than the other.

I admit that I’m rich & I’m lit.

Maybe admitting you need a break will give someone else the space to take one too.

Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class.

A mistake is valuable if you do four things with it: recognize it, admit it, learn from it, forget it.