Governor, why wouldn't anyone want to say the Pledge of Allegiance, unless they detested their own country or were ignorant of its greatness?

Halloween is a liberal holiday because we're teaching our children to beg for something for free. … We're teaching kids to knock on other people's doors and ask for a handout.

Is the president purposefully using propaganda and hyperbole to garner the American public for support?

If someone's not attacking you that means you're not doing your job effectively.

I have liberal friends. They are misguided, they are wrong. I disagree with them. I don't want them to vote. I want them to go on vacation in November.

The U.S. is the greatest, best country God has ever given man on the face of the earth.

The only thing I believe is individual responsibility doesn't mean the government is the answer to ever fear and every problem every individual has. We are the masters of our own destiny.

I am a total loser, in every aspect of my life. I rarely go out.

It doesn't say anywhere in the Constitution this idea of the separation of church and state.

I never got a job from a poor person.

I think there's definitely billions and billions in waste, fraud and abuse. There's billions that can be generated in the economy by eliminating the bureaucracy.

To find yourself, get lost for others.

Did I feel a physical desire for him? I did. Was I moved by a passion of my body? I was. Have I experienced the most violent form of sensual pleasure? I have.

Casting directors tend to be the unsung heroes in this business.

I'm only rich because I know when I'm wrong.

Singing is incredibly physical.

Classical music fulfills for me the function of narrative. I spend 90 minutes a day listening to symphonic music - Beethoven to Bartók - some chamber pieces, and that's my enrichment.

the power of a text is not time-bound. The words go on doing their work.

One must respect black. Nothing prostitutes it.

In the end [of the "2012"], there were no ships, no water, no nothing. Only the interiors [were real]. Everything else had to be made, and that is always challenging.

When I write, I'm sort of old-fashioned in the sense that I like to write something that I feel I could just perform alone, obviously, because I do that a lot in concert.