I have paid taxes every year, a lot of taxes.

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.

Why do you think posers pose? Because they want to be invited to the dominion of the real. And they know their very desire for it disqualifies them.

Words will never fully capture what is alive in our hearts.It would be a shame, though, if we denied our bears their dancing.

Indian democracy's greatest strength is that we have always put the nation above politics.

On film sets I can see everyone, and I really still find that so difficult.

Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves.

I was going to thrash them within an inch of their lives, but I didn't have a tape measure.

None are too wise to be mistaken, but few are so wisely just as to acknowledge and correct their mistakes, and especially the mistakes of prejudice.

All learning is remembering. A good teacher causes students to remember what they already know.

The older I get, there doesn't seem to be anything remotely more interesting than talking about love and the lack of it and what happens when it's taken away from someone who's had it.

You find yourself in the world, without any power, immovable as a rock, stupid, so to speak, as a log of wood.