Anything that strengthens the private sector vs. the state is protective of personal freedom.

Our morbidly obese federal government needs not just behavior modification but bariatric surgery.

No feature of the Obama presidency has been sadder than its constant efforts to divide us, to curry favor with some Americans by castigating others.

Our main task is not to see that people of great wealth add to it, but that those without much money have a greater chance to earn some.

I refer to the debt - the new red menace. This time consisting of ink.

The perverse presumption that places the burden of proof on the challenger of spending must be inverted, back to the rule that applies elsewhere in life: 'Prove to me why we should.

Our first thought is always for those on life's first rung, and how we might increase their chances of climbing.

We are taking challenges and turning them into opportunities by developing homegrown, local energy production to become independent from foreign sources.

The public is increasingly disgusted with a steady diet of defamation, and prepared to reward those who refrain from it.

We see government's mission as fostering and enabling the important realms - our businesses, service clubs, Little Leagues, churches - to flourish.

If freedom's best friends cannot unify around a realistic, actionable program of fundamental change, one that attracts and persuades a broad majority of our fellow citizens, big change will not come

Go for the hum.

...guilt is deserved only when the effort to resist evil is never made.

Life wants you to know that people are more important than things.

To be ungrateful is to be unnatural. The head may be thus guilty, not the heart.

If you worry about anyone having a go at you for having ideas, we'd still all be living in caves.

My grandfather and my father disagreed about music, not least of all because my dad wanted to improvise. It wasn't just that he wanted to play different music; it was just that he came off the dots.

Just the act of sleeping beside someone you liked to be with. Maybe that was love.

There's still nothing like a book to really make you feel like you've disappeared into a world.

Success can eliminate as many options as failure.

People don't remember. Revenge is sweet.