"Everyone wants to demagogue everyone else. That may be good politics, but it's awful policy."

"I don't think there's anybody in America who thinks my personality is best suited to being Number Two."

"Now our founding fathers had the wisdom to know that social acceptance and popularity were fleeing, and that this country's principles needed to be rooted in strengths greater than the passions and the emotions of the times."

"They said it was impossible to touch the third rail of politics, to take on public-sector unions and to reform a pension and health benefits system that was headed to bankruptcy. But with bipartisan leadership, we saved taxpayers $132 billion dollars over 30 years and saved retirees their pensions. We did it."

"The greatest deception is forgetting that every failure is just a stepping stone to greatness."

"I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another."

"The only limit to human potential is the essence of humanity is our ability to connect."

"I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong."