Obviously, there has to be a profound change in direction. Otherwise, interest on the national debt will start eating up virtually every penny that we have.
Giving a 10-year mandatory minimum for a second offense fist fight is not going to reduce the chance that someone will be stabbed 16 times when you are not funding any of the programs that are desperately needed to actually reduce juvenile crime.
Another example of the educational inequality is the current debate over publicly financed school vouchers which will provide educational opportunities to a privileged handful, but deprive public schools of desperately needed resources.
We can continue our progress as a Nation toward the promise that all people are created equal and that our Nation will treat every person in that spirit.
These funds will ensure that ports will be able to pay for adequate security measures to protect all Americans against terrorist attacks from our seaports.
We aren't going to agree on everything and there will be other areas where we will be working together.
I know that Montana is the greatest place in the world to raise a family, to start and grow a business. You know it, and I know it and now we will tell the world.
I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.
Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.
Revenge... is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill, will return upon him with a greater violence, and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion.
One thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
If a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life.
Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.