My father always said that Brazil is the place to 'make America,' and by 'make America' he meant the place to grow - to prosper.

My first word for the people of Brazil is the word 'confidence.' Confidence in the values that form the character of our people, the vitality of our democracy.

Protests are part of our democracy.

I am aware that if I do become the president, I, too, could be processed for any political wrongdoing.

When government accepts responsibility for people, then people no longer take responsibility for themselves.

The President's announcement sounded less like a national energy plan than like a page from an election-year play book. This Administration's plan to reduce obscene oil company profits is to regulate them less.

Bush v. Gore' gave us a president who lost the popular vote, eventually appointed two more justices, and led us into a war of choice while failing to regulate a financial system dependent on toxic mortgage-backed derivatives.

Fruits are always of the same nature with the seeds and roots from which they come, and trees are known by the fruits they bear: as a man begets a man, and a beast a beast, that society of men which constitutes a government upon the foundation of justice.