Federal funding for cities who consider themselves sanctuary cities should be reduced.

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.

You may say, But wasn't this the Sixties? Yes, but only for some people, only in certain parts of the country.

Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing.

Just because we are not Italian, does not mean we cannot appreciate Michelangelo, it is the same with cuisine.

Ivory may not be so white as snow, but the whole Arctic continent does not make ivory black.

And so I will take back up my poor life, so plain and so tranquil, where phrases are adventures and the only flowers I gather aremetaphors.

There are those without decency who must be fought without hesitation, without pity.

I'm the only president you've got.

People who do really dangerous tasks can't afford to sit around and discuss the merits of what they're doing.

Clay is one of the best things you can put in your body.

He jests at scars that never felt a wound.