"I stand before you today because this vision of government as the engine of opportunity is what I believe in"

"The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today"

"I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one"

"The opportunity to create a small world between two pieces of cardboard, where time exists yet stands still, where people talk and I tell them what to say, is exciting and rewarding"

"All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual"

"In thinking about nanotechnology today, what's most important is understanding where it leads, what nanotechnology will look like after we reach the assembler breakthrough"

"Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true"

"I like to use the hard times in the past to motivate me today"

"The science of today is the technology of tomorrow"

"The politician's promises of yesterday are the taxes of today"

"Opportunity makes a thief"