I'd like to be the next president of the United States to support and help this great nation and to make sure that we all together remain America as the hope of the earth.

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.

Teach me to treat all that comes to me with peace of soul and with firm conviction that Your will governs all.

A coward is incapable of exhibiting love it is the prerogative of the brave.

Work hard. And have patience. Because no matter who you are, you're going to get hurt in your career and you have to be patient to get through the injuries.

There is obviously a great human need for religion because life seems to be such a mystery.

When man desires to live as long as a tree, his diet will be fruit.

Concision in art is a necessity and an elegance. The verbose painter bores: who will get rid of all these trimmings?

I grew up in Oakland and Berkeley, California.

He has to live in the midst of the incomprehensible, which is also detestable.

It is one thing to fall victim to the flood or to fall prey to cancer; it is another thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

Now, by the world, it is a lusty wench; I love her ten times more than e'er I did: O, how I long to have some chat with her!