Deadline for Iraqi withdrawal is legislating defeat.

One morning, just like 9/11, there's going to be a disaster. I have yet to see the United Nations do anything effective with either Iran or North Korea.

The idea that a congressman would be tainted by accepting money from private industry or private sources is essentially a socialist argument.

Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.

All unemployment compensation should be tied to a job training requirement. Now the fact is, 99 weeks is an associate degree.

President Obama has created at least three jobs that I know of - Bob McDonnell, Chris Christie, and Scott Brown.

It may just be because I get homesick, but I have concluded Washington's cherry blossoms are just plain overrated.

I don't see how the party that says it's the party of the family is going to adopt an immigration policy which destroys families that have been here a quarter century.

I'm not a natural leader. I'm too intellectual; I'm too abstract; I think too much.

If Thomas Edison invented electric light today, Dan Rather would report it on CBS News as, 'Candle-making industry threatened'.

The most important social welfare program in America is a job.

These two oo in "book" are like the two eyes of a reader who fell in love with a story.

Even on the saddest nightin times of servitudethere is always someone who resiststhere is always someone who says no.

The influence of a mother upon the lives of her children cannot be measured. They know and absorb her example and attitudes when it comes to questions of honesty, temperance, kindness and industry.

The idea of it (draining Lake Powell) is absolutely ridiculous.

Creating investment, growing the economy and creating jobs is what this government wants to do.

Ancient philosophy proposed to mankind an art of living. By contrast, modern philosophy appears above all as the construction of a technical jargon reserved for specialists.

Oh my friend, all that you see of me is a shell, the rest belongs to love.

To feel ambition and to act upon it is to embrace the unique calling of our souls.

It is extremely dangerous to encourage people to see themselves as exceptional, whatever the motivation.

There are a million examples of not feeling the jazz, but using the jazz.