I have respectfully declined the president's invitation to the White House today.

Why - because as a oil and gas small business owner - I know if someone is not doing their job, they should not get paid. Again leadership by example.

I don't intend to spend my morning being lectured to by a president whose failed policies have put our children and grandchildren in a huge burden of debt.

The budget acknowledges the importance of maintaining our ports and waterways to encourage commercial deep-draft navigation and economic competitiveness.

Until the President produces a responsible deficit reduction plan, I'm not going to the White House to negotiate with myself.

I lean back on the pillows and look at the corners of the room. When I was a kid, I always wanted to live on the ceiling - it looked so clean and uncluttered, like the top of a cake.

The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true by the philosopher as equally false and by the magistrate as equally useful.

Yes, guns are to men what jewelry is to women!

I get constantly mistaken for Elijah Wood. I was in Japan and someone held out a photo of him for me to sign.

I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key.

I cannot but think it an evil sign of a people when their houses are built to last for one generation only.

We take our international responsibilities very seriously and will not withdraw our troops from Iraq... Otherwise, the victims of terror in Madrid will have died in vain.

The road is a fun place, and it's a great place to get out there and explore the country. But as far as the road life with the 'rock n' roll temptations,' there's not much of that with me.

What I do has to be a function of what I can do, not a function of what people ask me to do.

You know, the only way I've found to make these pictures is with animators. You can't seem to do it with accountants and bookkeepers.