Could I ask if there’s anything in between Step One and Step Two? ‘Oh ye of little faith.’

We don't need someone who can think. We need someone with enough digits to hold a pen.

I don't want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub.

We are trying to change the tones in the state capitals, and turn them toward bitter nastiness and partisanship.

My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub.

Obsessions turn people off.

We will make it so that a Democrat cannot govern as a Democrat.

This always confuses liberals, that conservatives like the military and don't like the bureaucracy. That's because the military has their guns pointed out and the bureaucracy has them pointed in.

I was an anti-communist before I was political in other ways.

The future of the Republican Party, all the different folks looking to lead the Republican Party at the national level in the future, recognize we should do immigration reform.

Being married is kind of like being a Ken-doll; you don't get to dress yourself anymore.

The great and almost only comfort about being a woman is that one can always pretend to be more stupid than one is and no one is surprised.

She's a hypnotist collector; you are a walking antique.

You don't spend your money while you're making it. You don't have time.

The capacity to be patient, to bear with others through thick and thin, is within the reach of anyone.

A garden is mainly ...a space around which interests can be accumulated.

Purification is never for the selfishly idle, it accrues only to the selflessly industrious.

Chess, like any creative activity, can exist only through the combined efforts of those who have creative talent, and those who have the ability to organize their creative work

It loves more readily than it hates.

Once you're able to look like an idiot and be OK with it, it opens up your potential.

If anything matters, then everything matters.