Americans can live with the fact that good people sometimes give their lives for this country, but what they can't take, what they can't live with is when their government is not square with them.

For me, I think being a conservative means you are focused on all four key principles: strong defense, lower taxes, less spending, and defending traditional American values.

Someone is going to have to explain to me at some time how raising taxes on job-creators is going to create more jobs.

Let's get put in place a better health care system the American people deserve.

If you're not willing to work, you're never going to be able to experience the American Dream.

Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.

New York was not a romantic city at [80th]. Nobody knows who you are and you don't have to care about anybody else. It's a very cold city, I should say.

Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart.

I have a foolproof device for judging whether a picture is good or bad. If my fanny squirms, it's bad. If my fanny doesn't squirm, it's good.

I regard philanthropy as a tragic apology for wrong conditions under which human beings live.

For the army is a school in which the miser becomes generous, and the generous prodigal; miserly soldiers are like monsters, but very rarely seen.

...the human spirit knows, deep down that all lives intersect.

I must confess I've always had a couple of pinball machines in my home and really have enjoyed some of the old classics, like Fireball.

In the beginning, I had considered these stops on my journey as interruptions - but I'm coming to understand that perhaps these detours are my journey.