Although I held public office for a total of sixteen years, I also thought of myself as a citizen-politician, not a career one. Every now and then when I was in government, I would remind my associates that 'When we start thinking of government as 'us' instead of 'them,' we've been here too long.' By that I mean that elected officeholders need to retain a certain skepticism about the perfectibility of government.

We have found, in our country, that when people have the right to make decisions as close to home as possible, they usually make the right decisions.

I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there's purpose and worth to each and every life.

Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders. ... The Goliath of tota…

A politics that is not sensitive to the concerns and circumstances of people's lives, a politics that does not speak to and include people, is an intellectuall…

I feel as if it were time for me to write to someone who will believe what I write. I have been for some time in the atmosphere of certain success, so that I h…

The President of the United States of necessity owes his election to office to the suffrage and zealous labors of a political party, the members of which cheri…