I am in favor of stem-cell research. I am not in favor of creating new human embryos through cloning.

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.

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.

When it comes to pinning blame, pin the tail on the donkeys.

Cynicism can blind one to subtler virtues

... the battle for the acceptance of photography as Art was not only counter-productive but counter-revolutionary. The most important photography is most emphatically not Art.

Dentist: a prestidigitator who, putting metal into your mouth, pulls coin out of your pocket.

Polyphonic prose is a kind of free verse, except that it is still freer. Polyphonic makes full use of cadence, rime, alliteration, assonance.

When currying favor with Washington is seen as a much easier way to make money, businesses inevitably begin to compete with rivals in securing government largess, rather than in winning customers.

As the scripts come in they are sent to the artists, and the artists are either very busy, or ready to start.

Every man speaks of public opinion, and means by public opinion, public opinion minus his opinion.

And I think Hillary Clinton is able to be elected president of the United States.

I'm fed up with the idiots... the ever-widening gap between people who know how to make movies and the people who green-light the movies.

Publication has been extended far beyond our present ability to make real use of the record.