Barack Obama is facing a financial emergency on a grander scale. Yet his approach has been to engage in one of the biggest peacetime spending binges in American history.

We will strengthen our security by building missile defense, restoring our military might, and standing by and strengthening our intelligence officers.

I like PBS. I love Big Bird ... But I'm not going to keep on spending money on things to borrow money from China to pay for it.

I'm not going to wear rose-colored glasses when it comes to Russia, or Mr. Putin.

I have never once regretted missing a business opportunity so that I could be with my children and grandchildren.

My wife drives a couple of Cadillacs.

I have some friends who are NASCAR team owners.

I am in favor of stem-cell research. I am not in favor of creating new human embryos through cloning.

Isn't it fitting that so many of those who have contempt for the private sector will soon find themselves back in it?

There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what.

I'm not familiar precisely with what I said, but I'll stand by what I said, whatever it was.

I focus on the light I can find, and if I can't find it, I create it.

Imagination though it cannot wipe out the sting of remorse can instruct the mind in its proper uses.

Love yourself so much that you can never harm yourself. Remember, you can never harm others without harming yourself.

Sometimes, life is all about just surviving. Whether one gives up or not that differentiates the winners from the losers.

One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up.

Pray silently with simplicity every day to stay cool and calm in mind, composed and collected in heart; courageous and connected to own soul, to lay the way for a peaceful life.

Andy [Griffith] and I spoke on the phone not too long before he died. I told him I loved him and he told me he loved me. He was a wonderful man.

Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do, than what one can do.

Like, my mother would have company over, and I would sing so they'd pay attention to me.

Would the cook were o' my mind!