The concept of minimum wage is crazy, if you really stop to think about it. If $8 an hour seems right, why not $20 an hour? If it's coming by order of the government, why stop at any level? Why not just say everyone should get what Gates gets?

We are a communicating nation which needs access to space, access to the seas.

Government, which does not and did not grant us our rights, must not now seek to deny them by using fear as its justification.

Finally we are a nation with some conscience. It means alliances are extremely important when they're based on a national interest. We have to have the ability to sustain our presence within those alliances.

Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.

With those people, I'm very far apart, because I believe that government access to communications and stored records is valuable when done under tightly controlled conditions which protect legitimate privacy interests.

China more than two milleniums ago had already considered the idea of democracy, but at that time she could not put it into operation.

The recount in Michigan is over. The election is over. Our next president is Donald J. Trump. Winning once was nice. But winning twice was huge.