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.

We will strengthen our security by building missile defense, restoring our military might, and standing by and strengthening our intelligence officers.

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.

When it comes to pinning blame, pin the tail on the donkeys.

Life is the most magnificent dance floor of love. Dance with love to feel the joy of life.

The only emperor is the emperor of ice cream.

Not the measure of words is necessary, but their meaning.

Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you.

My own understanding is the sole treasure I possess, and the greatest. Though infinitely small and fragile in comparison with the powers of darkness, it is still a light, my only light.

The world does not owe us a living, we owe the world a living, our own.

The soul of a landscape, the spirits of the elements, the genius of every place will be revealed to a loving view of nature.

Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.

I've always been just as interested in making people think as I am in making them feel, and one of the things this scientific process allows me to do is make the audience look differently at dance.