Do you want to tear your life apart and get rid of everything you've known as a lifestyle? Like seeing your family? Being with your friends? A fishing trip? A hunting trip? A night's sleep?

If you are sure you understand everything that is going on, you are hopelessly confused.

Gun bans don't disarm criminals, gun bans attract them.

Political image is like mixing cement. When it's wet, you can move it around and shape it, but at some point it hardens and there's almost nothing you can do to reshape it.

The Queen of England is Defender of the Faith but the President of the United States is Defender of the Constitution, which defends all faiths.

The idea behind Reaganomics is this: a rising tide lifts all yachts.

Do not despair. In every defeat are found the seeds of victory.

You have got to be careful quoting Ronald Reagan, because when you quote him accurately it is called mudslinging.

I don't want to spend the next two years in Holiday Inns.

Whatever his private beliefs and religious practice, a president must be the guardian of the laws which ensure America's religious diversity.

[Running for President is] physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually the most demanding single undertaking I can envisage unless it's World War III

Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary.

The People have a right to the Truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Courageous leadership is not fearless leadership. What makes you a leader is how you deal with your fears.

My biggest faux pas is not giving time for myself.

Perhaps the basic thing which contributes to charm is the ability to forget oneself and be engrossed in other people.

Mirrors should reflect before sending an image.

That's why when I send a postcard I quiz people. "Hey, did you get that postcard?" "Yeah, yeah yeah." "Well what'd I say?" "Uh, you were havin-" "I was in jail"

O truth divine! enlightened by thy ray, I grope and guess no more, but see my way.

It's time that we recognized that ours was in truth a noble cause.

The technology of synthetic biology is currently accelerating at four times the rate of Moore's Law. It's been doing that since 2005, and it's likely to continue.