I don't accept defeat as final. Only death is final - and even then I hope for a reprieve.

Government is not the generator of economic growth; working people are.

Quite frankly, I think nothing could do more to immediately bolster national security then enabling us to produce more oil and gas here at home at a price consumers could afford.

I love Texas because Texas is future-oriented, because Texans think anything is possible. Texans think big

We're going to keep building the party until we're hunting Democrats with dogs.

I'm carrying so much pork, I'm beginning to get trichinosis.

Half the world does not know the joy of wearing cotton underwear.

Balancing the budget is like going to heaven. Everybody wants to do it, but nobody wants to do what you have to do to get there.

We're the only nation in the world where most of our poor people are fat.

I own more shotguns than I need. But less shotguns than I want.

There's one form of bigotry that is still acceptable in America - that's the bigotry against the successful.

I wake up laughing. Yes, I wake up in the morning and there I am just laughing my head off.

Reversed [Hillary Clinton's] position on charter schools, reversed her position on changing the way our urban education is run, because she has sold out to the teachers union.

Give your best effort, because you are worth your best effort.

Grim care, moroseness, anxiety-all this rust of life ought to be scoured off by the oil of mirth. Mirth is God's medicine.

I have not given it [synagogue] up. Christianity is the completion of the synagogue, for the synagogue was a promise, and Christianity is the fulfillment of that promise.

Entrepreneurs have two basic assets: their creativity and their relationships.

The way to mend the bad world is to create the right world.

I don't like being up high. It took me three days to get to the top of the Eiffel Tower.

I think we have erred on the side of being too conservative so far, to tell you the truth.

I'm not opposed to the protection of animals. But the best way to do that is to make sure some human being owns them.