I love my dad. It's fair to say that I probably would not have thought of politics had I not seen my mom and dad involved in politics.

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.

Michael Powell knows what I am going to say even before I say it — maybe even before I have thought it – and that is very rare. You are lucky if you meet someone like that once in your life.

As long as the Earth can make a spring every year I can. As long as the Earth can flower and produce nurturing fruit I can because I'm the Earth. I won't give up until the Earth gives up.

If people think you are this amazing, own it.

I was more influenced by players like Randy Rhoads and Eddie Van Halen than by the guys in southern rock bands.

Jennifer Aniston and Paul Rudd are really amazing, lovely people and really great comedic actors.

Chronic disease is a foodborne illness. We ate our way into this mess, and we must eat our way out.

It is a good thing to let prayer be the first business of the morning and the last of the evening.

I think we need to feel, to come together, to look at our differences as a benefit to who we are as people on the same planet.

The future is but the obsolete in reverse.

I feel sometimes an American artist must feel, like a baseball player or something - a member of a team writing American history.