“I’ve always believed that a lot of the trouble in the world would disappear if we were talking to each other instead of about each other.”

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.

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.

One can be sophisticated and believe in God. Reason and intellect are not to be laid aside where matters of religion are concerned.

Love is believable. I reckon I’ll just see it when I see it.

Be brave, be bold, beware that you must believe before becoming.

Imagine a world where unbelievers were critical of what we believed but envious of how well we treated one another.

On some nights, I still believe that a car with the gas needle on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio.

Your spirit is the part of you that has to believe in something more. It’s the light of you.

I believe we should encourage children to sing and play instruments from an early age.

If you do not live what you believe, you will end up believing what you live.