I don't like to have the federal government start pushing its weight deeper and deeper into our schools. Let the states and localities do that.

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.

Contrary to your beliefs, I am stronger then what you give me credit for, but the real lesson here is the knowledge to know I don't owe you an explanation to anything.

Books are a stairway to knowledge

In a place filled with fears, they were looking for the man who had none.

Tomorrow I'll suggest the liar lies against himselfSo our condition makes escape impossible? -- we breatheand it's moving air that causes stars to twinkle

I never liked being a salesman. . . . Ever since I got my first two orders: Get out! and Stay out!

Really, Sophronia, it makes me most uncomfortable how you manage to sort everything out every time I faint.

It is my experience that the short path to the simple and precise English needed by a man of science lies thorough the tongues of Homer and Vergil.

When you're a writer, you have to write these stories, even if you don't get paid

I always like to try to bring whatever I can to what is on the page, so I like to find as much dimension as I can, in each role.

Some people can sit down and write a song, but they can't go on stage like I can.