America needs jobs, smaller government, less spending and a president with the courage to offer more than yet another speech.

In the myopic world of the liberals, guns are responsible for evil instead of the perpetrator of evil. But criminals are not bound by our laws. That's what makes them criminals.

The foundation for future prosperity is built on the bedrock of good jobs and great schools. We are building a strong foundation one job at a time and one educated Texan at a time.

Running for the presidency's not an IQ test.

I may have the genetic coding that Im inclined to be an alcoholic, but I have the desire not to do that, and I look at the homosexual issue the same way.

I hope I am the Tim Tebow of the Iowa caucuses.

Every life is precious.

Every barrel of oil that comes out of those sands in Canada is a barrel of oil that we don't have to buy from a foreign source.

Dark economic clouds are dissipating into an emerging blue sky of opportunity.

Armed and law-abiding citizens are a greater deterrent to violent crime than 1,000 laws passed by Congress.

According to a study by Achieve Incorporated, Texas is the first state to make a college-prep curriculum the standard coursework in high school, starting with this year's ninth grade class.

Children need love especially when they do not deserve it.

Now and then one sees a face which has kept its smile pure and undefiled. Such a smile transfigures such a smile if the artful but know it is the greatest weapon a face can have.

Rockefeller once explained the secret of success. 'Get up early, work late - and strike oil.'

I couldn't tell people what I wanted to do because I was from Atlanta. You don't tell people you're gonna be a comedian in Atlanta. That means you ain't gonna do nothing.

Truth carries with it confrontation.

My knowledge of horror films is pathetic because I can't really watch them.

Religion, morality, and patriotism are feelings that are manifested only when they are outraged.

Knowledge is hot water on wool. It shrinks time and space.

I've never felt like I needed to change. I've always thought, 'If you want somebody different, pick somebody else.'

Then during the mission itself, I used the space shuttle's robot arm to release a satellite into orbit.