I could have possibly beaten Senator McCain in the primary. Then I could have been the candidate who lost to Barack Obama.

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.

A successful man never allows his faulty of discrimination and judgement to be distributed by the rising tides of his emotions.

Adversity is a better educator than the best teacher.

Renee was beautiful, but she was my friend now. On the other hand, Annette was my friend, but now she was beautiful. makes about as much sense as anything ever does with girls

Liberating education consists in acts of cognition, not transferrals of information.

Isn't it wonderful to be an artist whose works have mostly been lost?

Jewels! It's my belief that when woman was made, jewels were invented only to make her the more mischievous.

A fairytale is when you marry a frog and it turns out to be a princess. Reality is vice versa.

Ridiculously - fortunately - my first job was with Dustin Hoffman. I had a little part in this movie called Tootsie. And he taught me how to watch dailies. That it was very important.

I think today if we forbade our illiterate children to touch the wonderful things of our literature, perhaps they might steal them and find secret joy.

I feel like have a lot of music left to cut in my life.