"Politics is an act of faith you have to show some kind of confidence in the intellectual and moral capacity of the public."

"I wish I had known more firsthand about the concerns and problems of American businesspeople while I was a U.S. senator and later a presidential nominee. That knowledge would have made me a better legislator and a more worthy aspirant to the White House."

"I hope someday we will be able to proclaim that we have banished hunger in the United States, and that we've been able to bring nutrition and health to the whole world."

"Well, we ought to be stirred, even to tears, by society's ills."

"I mean, I do think at a certain point you've made enough money."

"I think the future also will not belong to those who are cynical or those who stand on the sidelines."

"Don't think of yourself as a woman in business."

"The darkest nights often reveal that the mind is a garden where thoughts are the seeds."