Borrowing and spending is not the way to prosperity.

Exploiting people's emotions of fear, envy and anxiety is not hope, it's not change, it's partisanship. We don't need partisanship. We don't need demagoguery, we need solutions.

We don’t want to turn the safety net into a hammock that lulls able-bodied people to lives of dependency and complacency...

Big-government economics breeds crony capitalism. It's corrupt, anything but neutral, and a barrier to broad participation in prosperity.

A free economy and strong communities honor the dignity of every person, rewarding effort with justice, promoting upward mobility, and building solidarity among citizens.

Mr. Vice President, I know you're under a lot of duress to make up for lost ground, but I think people would be better served if we don't keep interrupting each other.

If somebody is going to try to paste a person's view on epistemology to me, then give me Thomas Aquinas. Don't give me Ayn Rand.

And to this day, my Mom is my role model.

Every successful individual knows that his or her achievement depends on a community of persons working together.

We will not spend four years blaming others, we will take responsibility.

We need to stop spending money we don't have.

Now faith is being sure of what we believe in and certain of what we do not see. (Heb. 11:1)

Library. It's where we lock up all those books before they start giving kids ideas, " I said solemnly. "Very dangerous place to be.

No matter what life throws at you, fight with your eyes wide open to fight a good fight.

Beyond the curve of his days he glimpsed neither superhuman happiness nor eternity--happiness was human, eternity ordinary.

I still believe in a place called Hope.

Honor is better than honors.

Scent is often underestimated, when it can be the most evocative.

Waterboarding ok if national security were at stake.

It is a happy thing that there is no royal road to poetry. The world should know by this time that one cannot reach Parnassus except by flying thither.

Where are you, bloodsuckers? Here, fangy, fangy, fangy...