Americans have not only a right but a responsibility to consider the values of those who seek to lead them - whether they arise from life experience, political ideology or religious belief.

As long as there's land available, single-family homes will be built, and Colorado residents will always go for a single-family over a condo.

I consider the Chinese government's policy among the most intelligent in the world.

As President, I will end once and for all the use of taxpayer funds to promote the National Endowment for the Arts and other programs that subsidize amoral and degrading activities.

There's a lot of people out now around America who depend on checks from their fellow taxpayers being in the mailbox every day.

When the penalty for a policeman's mistake is to put a criminal back out on the street, then we are hurting America; we are hurting our law-abiding citizens.

I think it would be bizarre to pick somebody to speak at the convention based on their sexual preference, because once you go down that road, why don't you pick a transvestite?

I would prefer every [American] state keep the definition of marriage that's prevailed in Western civilization for a couple thousand years.

In the continuing debate over the morality of enhanced interrogation, an essential consideration is often overlooked: intent.

I'm pro-death penalty, but what I have not seen is anybody that would mock someone on death row.

All the culture war issues will be settled by the court.

Lord but I dislike poetry. How can anyone remember words that aren't put to music?

One of the terrible fallacies of contemporary psychotherapy is that if people would just say how they felt, a lot of problems could be solved.

In war more than anywhere else in the world things happen differently from what we had expected and look differently when near from what they did at a distance.

Vulnerability is not weakness.

I do know how to fire a machine gun, so be warned! I'm trained!

The sexual energies returned, when they're not evolved, are still linked with violence and the fear of power - the fear of women.

There are not that many people in the movies today that really make me go out and buy a movie ticket.

Among the songs I love best were those that I see as historically important, which help to change and develop my taste.

We will keep a close eye on what is happening and wait for the election results and after that we will be ready to work with any Administration given that it wants to work with us.

The multitude of books is making us ignorant.