"There are a number of steps that we can take to reinvigorate and rebuild the economic and the physical infrastructure of our country and then to rebuild us, frankly, on a spiritual level"

"Innovation is the central issue in economic prosperity"

"Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them"

"States get to improve transportation infrastructure; that creates economic development, puts people back to work and, most important, enhances safety and improves local communities"

"It's not just the effect of technology on the environment, on religion, on the economic structure, on society, on politics, etc. It's that everything now exists in technology to the point where technology is the new and comprehensive host of nature of life"

"Our people can draw on the tremendous strides made in recent years, not only in terms of advancing themselves spiritually and materially, but also in having weathered social and economic turbulence, triggered, in the main, by factors not of their own creation"

"A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom"

"There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty"

"The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists"

"My own personal, moral, spiritual, religious, etc. beliefs don't oppose same-gender marriage"

"From this process has emerged a parallel process of translating traditional working and living values into a new political and economic power - a power increasingly based upon the strength of money and those material things money can purchase"