While other state governments stiff their vendors, close parks, delay tax refunds, and ignore unacceptably poor service levels, Indiana state employees are setting national standards for efficiency.

And this year, when we end the cruel, defeatist practice of passing children who cannot read into fourth grade, and when our most diligent students begin to graduate from high school in 11 years, and get a head start on college costs with the dollars they earned through their hard work, others will take notice of Indiana yet again.

America is about to turn the page on Barack Obama's four-year experiment in big government.

It just doesn't occur to an American that someone else will solve their problems. Americans take pride in solving problems for themselves. And if we fail, we get back up and try again. It's what we do. It's who we are.

For four years, Barack Obama has been running from the nation's problems. He hasn't been working to earn reelection. He's been working to earn a spot on the PGA tour.

We hear the stories every day now: the father who puts on a suit every morning and leaves the house so his daughter doesn't know he lost his job, the recent college grad facing up to the painful reality that the only door that's open to her after four years of study and a pile of debt is her parents'. These are the faces of the Obama economy.

Mitt Romney has spent his entire life finding ways to solve problems.

Do we need to tighten restrictions on people coming into the country? I think there's a good argument for that, but a kind of broad ban is a bad idea, and, of course, many American Muslims are great sources of information as we seek to look for domestic folks who might be engaged in trying to promote terrorist activities.

The border is way more porous than it should be, and I think we'd be open to discussing anything that enhances border security.

The American people gave us a new majority in 2014.

I'm optimistic that none of my members in the end want to be responsible for the status quo on Obamacare.

My wife came here at age 8 not speaking a word of English and ended up in the president's Cabinet.

The implication here is that those who came to America legally over the years are somehow second-class citizens.

We all got here from somewhere else going back in our lineage. And I think these gratuitous attacks on Americans who got here recently or whose parents got here recently need to stop.

My first memory in life was my last visit to Warm Springs.

The Senate is not the sort of place where instant gratification, I should say, is very likely.

I think it's a big mistake for our party to write off Latino Americans. They're an important part of our country.

I believe that marriage should be between one man and one woman.

My job is to try to protect jobs in Kentucky now, not speculate about science in the future.

What will happen is the bills will start out the way we like them; in order to move them - we'll probably have to make compromises. That's the way the legislative process works when it's functioning.

I always think a debt ceiling is a good tool to carry something.

I think we know enough now to know that Donald Trump is doing the same kinds of things that Jeb Bush would have done or Marco Rubio would have done or Mitt Romney would have done.

I think that winning the White House is about more than just entertaining a large audience.

The country is yearning for a change. I'd rather take my chances on somebody new, particularly with regard to the Supreme Court.

The Russians are clearly a big adversary, and they demonstrated it by trying to mess around in our election.

When economic conditions are difficult, people tend to be less generous and protect themselves; the question of solidarity doesn't mean much to them at that time.

I urge the Iraqi leadership for sake of its own people... to seize this opportunity and thereby begin to end the isolation and suffering of the Iraqi people.

In their greatest hour of need, the world failed the people of Rwanda.

If we can come up with innovations and train young people to take on new jobs, and if we can switch to clean energy, I think we have the capacity to build this world not dependent on fossil-fuel. I think it will happen, and it won't destroy economy.

What governments and people don't realise is that sometimes the collective interest - the international interest - is also the national interest.

We must ensure that the global market is embedded in broadly shared values and practices that reflect global social needs, and that all the world's people share the benefits of globalization.

Open markets offer the only realistic hope of pulling billions of people in developing countries out of abject poverty, while sustaining prosperity in the industrialized world.

National markets are held together by shared values and confidence in certain minimum standards. But in the new global market, people do not yet have that confidence.

I have always believed that on important issues, the leaders must lead. Where the leaders fail to lead, and people are really concerned about it, the people will take the lead and make the leaders follow.

If the United Nations does not attempt to chart a course for the world's people in the first decades of the new millennium, who will?

There are concerns that if we do not make progress ... desperate people will resort to violence again,

The process has been difficult, but the outcome is a clear demonstration of the will of all the members of the Security Council to place the interest of the Iraqi people above all other considerations.

The people of Serbia want to have a say in the decisions affecting them. And I hope that this choice and their voice will be heard.

Millions of children and young people are already affected by the pandemic - including those infected through the most heart-reading from of transmission, mother to child,

Obviously some of the efforts are being made to improve the conditions of the Iraqi people and make sure that the sanctions do not harm them. But if Iraq were to turn off the taps, then we'll be in a very serious situation,

I have argued for quite a long time that we should define humanitarian assistance in a broad enough manner to allow for assistance and repairs to electricity and heating systems and water for people through the winter, ... Otherwise we will have another humanitarian crisis on our hands.

for the sake of its own people and for the sake of world order.

History will judge them harshly and their people will not absolve them, if they fail.

hundreds of thousands more people are likely to become displaced as the conflict spreads and the drought worsens in the next two or three months.

My people there are not complaining about the coordination.

The American people who have always been the most generous in responding to disasters in other parts of the world, have now themselves suffered a grievous blow,

We must resolve, even more firmly, to build nations within which people of different communities can coexist, and enjoy equal rights,

thousands of villages have been burnt and more than a million people forced from their homes. In all about 1.3 million need immediate assistance.

The people and government of Pakistan are faced with an extraordinary challenge and we need to make an extraordinary effort to support them, ... What is needed is an immediate and exceptional escalation of the global relief effort to support the work of the government of Pakistan.

We are going to work with the Congolese people and the government to make sure we make progress and consolidate peace and stability.