By making bold cuts in spending and commonsense entitlement reforms, we will make our government simpler, smaller, and smarter.

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.

It is a hard lesson to learn and a lesson we most of us need to learn at some point: We cannot assume to know a person's history from their face.

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

Imagine living in a world where there is no domination, where females and males are not alike or even always equal, but where a vision of mutuality is the ethos shaping our interaction.

The true Logic for this world is the Calculus of Probabilities, which takes account of the magnitude of the probability.

How narrow we selfish conceited creatures are in our sympathies! How blind to the rights of all the rest of creation!

The union of Church and State is not to make the Church political, but the State religious.

Most of the successful people in Hollywood are failures as human beings.

I am so not technically proficient at all.

I love tango, and I used to dance when I was young.

Say what you believe and see who follows.