But the federal government, our collective government, has responsibilities that none of these other levels of government can fulfill; and chief among these is national defense.

It bothers me to read the comments of leaders of the Hamas and others who hate America that their goal is to have more weaponry capable of delivering all types of weapons of mass destruction.

[The Internal Revenue Code is] about 10 times the size of the Bible and, unlike the Bible, contains no good news

If people are going to be cooking the books, you're in trouble.

Well, we want to make sure there's not securities fraud.

I have always thought that Israel, as an independent and sovereign nation, had a right to defend itself.

I think most corporate executives are good honorable honest men and women who do good work.

My State Senate district was in the northern part of Oklahoma and they were redrawing the districts.

My last comment was, though, that Congress has cooked the books.

I happen to be one who believes very strongly that state and local governments have their proper roles.

I still happen to think the United States is the greatest place in the world to invest.

May you soar higher and higher, to uphold heavenly blessings.

Fixable but unfixed bad performance is bad character and tends to create more of itself, causing more damage to the excuse giver with each tolerated instance.

The tragedy is that, as modern viewers, we've completely lost touch with what it physically takes to wage a war.

I want us to save the creation-not just care about it, but to save it.

I am sometimes almost terrified at the scope of the demands made upon me, at the perfection of the self-abandonment required of me; yet outside of such absoluteness can be no salvation.

Publishers don't nurse you; they buy and sell you.

Live in robust sanity, in holy obedience to the ordinary." (The Message) "In an insane asylum like the world, simple sanity can be a heroic achievement.

What goes by the name of love is banishment, with now and then a postcard from the homeland, such is my considered opinion, this evening.

There's a different use for different strategies.