I don't want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub.

We don't need someone who can think. We need someone with enough digits to hold a pen.

We are trying to change the tones in the state capitals, and turn them toward bitter nastiness and partisanship.

My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub.

Obsessions turn people off.

We will make it so that a Democrat cannot govern as a Democrat.

This always confuses liberals, that conservatives like the military and don't like the bureaucracy. That's because the military has their guns pointed out and the bureaucracy has them pointed in.

I was an anti-communist before I was political in other ways.

The future of the Republican Party, all the different folks looking to lead the Republican Party at the national level in the future, recognize we should do immigration reform.

Being married is kind of like being a Ken-doll; you don't get to dress yourself anymore.

The goal is to reduce the size and scope of government spending, not to focus on the deficit. The deficit is the symptom of the disease.

among roses, be a rose, among thorns, be a thorn

I think in life we get very caught up in the minutia and, unfortunately, it generally takes some sort of tragedy in your life to put things in perspective.

Waging war we understand, but not waging peace, or at any rate less consciously so.

Those amateur umpires are certainly flexing their fangs tonight.

Let's be the kind of people that do good for others whether we get paid back or not, whether they say thank you or not.

To live in love is to live in life, and to live in life is to live in love

Once I was chased by the king of all scorpions. I have the most notorious animal stories.

I am happy with what I do. I'd love to be the manager of the Atlanta Braves, but they hired somebody this week. So I'll just have to be inordinately happy with one of the best jobs on the planet.

Behave like the human being you wish all would be

If you take pride in your attainment or become discouraged because of your idealistic effort, your practice will confine you by a thick wall.