I bathe in statistics.

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.

We as women, we have to understand that we know more, just even instinctively, than we think we do.

I pray not for victory, but to do my best.

When my father announced his campaign for president on Oct. 3, 1991, I had already cast my vote in favor of his candidacy.

Question your answers, Truth has no anger

Unless comedy touches me as well as amuses me, it leaves me with a sense of having wasted my evening. I go to the theatre to be moved to laughter, not to be tickled or bustled into it.

...in the habit of watching every bit of human life I can see about my windows, but I do it so that I am not observed at it.

In my own writing, I think of myself as a realist who exaggerates a little.

Follow your passions, believe in karma, and you won't have to chase your dreams, they will come to you.

The great thing about my life is that everything I've done is a result of what I was when I was 12 or 13.

As a kid, death seemed boring to me. As an adult, I think that it seems more like a waste of everything. Somebody once said every time a professor dies, a library burns.