'No one can make you successful; the will to success comes from within.' I've made this my motto. I've internalized it to the point of understanding that the success of my actions and/or endeavors doesn't depend on anyone else, and that includes a possible failure.

The American Dream is that any man or woman, despite of his or her background, can change their circumstances and rise as high as they are willing to work.

Fake news is a big thing in the field of Social Media Journalism. Fake news can be as simple has spreading misinformation.or as dangerous as smearing hateful propaganda.

Any time a party has lost three consecutive elections, it becomes a bit more willing to explore the notion of principled compromise so it's able to pursue some of its objectives.

The most important area for spending restraint is entitlement reform.

To regain our political footing, we must prove to moderates that Democrats can make tough choices.

Every once in a while, an election comes along, and who you are and what you believe gets subsumed in a larger tide. It just happens.

I love my father, and I believe in him. And he lost to Dan Quayle. I had a hard time understanding how that could happen.

The fastest-growing part of the Pentagon's budget are health care expenses.

Ultimately, the American people ourselves need to decide we care more about practical solutions and progress than we do about brain-dead ideology and political wrangling.

We all have things in life we'd do over again.

I care about family issues.

I've never stopped being a Hoosier.

I like a lot of my Republican colleagues, starting with my friend from Indiana, Senator Lugar. We've had an excellent relationship.

If you are the executive, you're probably going to have more of an impact than if you're one of a hundred members of the Senate, certainly one of 435 members of the House.

I'm a former governor, and so I was the chief executive, and when the legislature wasn't in session, I was running the state.

I intend to continue to fight for the things I think are right for my country.

Sometimes, when I come back to Washington from Indiana, I feel like an ambassador to a foreign country.

The United States depends on South Korea and Japan to help promote American values in East Asia.

China's island-building in the South China Sea poses a threat to U.S. national security interests in the region.

As Democrats, we have a patriotic duty and political imperative to lay out our ideas for protecting America.

We need leaders who appeal to us to think about something other than narrow self-interest but instead focus upon the greater good.

Americans have always prized individuality - it is part of our national DNA - but America is a community that draws strength from the sum of our people and has always known that the total of that sum is worth far more than its individual parts.

Through our own hard work and ingenuity, America has spent much of its history as the world's dominant economic power. But our dominance is not pre-ordained - history does not roll along on the wheels of inevitability.