"Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier."

"I don't know that there is much the United States can do except work with the international community."

"The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting above average effort."

"Wouldn't it be great if we could look forward to a whole world in which no child will be left behind?"

"I don't think we're going to see the price of oil going down in the near future, that's the reality."

"I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises - but only performance is reality."

"Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending."

"It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do."