Growing up, I had a front row seat to seeing two people work really hard. My dad scrubbed toilets at a private Catholic school for a while and that was to help me get through school.

The government is not your salvation. The government is not your road to prosperity. Hard work, education will take you far beyond what any government program can ever promise.

The America I know is great - not because government made it great but because ordinary citizens like me, like my father and like you are given the opportunity every day to do extraordinary things.

Hard work and education will take you farther than any government program can ever promise.

I understand people, and I think that my life and my history and what I represent can relate to a lot of the women, the independents, the moderate voters.

Difficult things aren't easy, but they're worth it.

Mr. President I am here to tell you we are not buying what you are selling in 2012.

My parents immigrated to the United States with $10 in their pocket and a belief that the America they had heard about really did exist as the land of opportunity.

According to liberals, I'm not supposed to exist. I know that I am going to be a target for the Left. I have something to say to them: 'Game On.'

So the America I came to know growing up was filled with all the excitement and possibilities found in living the American dream.

The Democrats have come right out and said it: the power of the central government shall have no limits at all.

This diary is my kief, hashish and opium pipe. This is my drug and my vice.

Marriage is not a noun it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.

If you can provide the funding and you get the leadership, you'll have a competitive team.

I get to work with great photographers, wear lovely clothes, be part of the creative process.

In the end, We're all the same.

My mission is to figure out the journalistic model for the digital medium, finding out how we get the right stories readers want, at the right time and wherever they want to read them.

The Oscars is the one night of the year when you can see all your favorite stars without having to donate any money to the Democratic Party

Why was it that cheering expressions were invariably so infuriating?

What are you hiding? No one ever asks that.

A poet feels the impulse to create a work of art when the passive awe provoked by an event is transformed into a desire to express that awe in a rite of worship.