I'm a person that can get along with people. I like people who believe passionately in things even if they're not the things I agree with.

Exploiting people's emotions of fear, envy and anxiety is not hope, it's not change, it's partisanship. We don't need partisanship. We don't need demagoguery, we need solutions.

We don’t want to turn the safety net into a hammock that lulls able-bodied people to lives of dependency and complacency...

Big-government economics breeds crony capitalism. It's corrupt, anything but neutral, and a barrier to broad participation in prosperity.

A free economy and strong communities honor the dignity of every person, rewarding effort with justice, promoting upward mobility, and building solidarity among citizens.

Mr. Vice President, I know you're under a lot of duress to make up for lost ground, but I think people would be better served if we don't keep interrupting each other.

If somebody is going to try to paste a person's view on epistemology to me, then give me Thomas Aquinas. Don't give me Ayn Rand.

And to this day, my Mom is my role model.

Every successful individual knows that his or her achievement depends on a community of persons working together.

We will not spend four years blaming others, we will take responsibility.

We need to stop spending money we don't have.

The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.

Do you want your faith to grow? Then let the Bible begin to saturate your mind and soul.

I just walk around, observing the subject from various angles until the picture elements arrange themselves into a composition that pleases my eye.

We're always hardest on our own work, I guess.

Culture is religion incarnate.

Alas for those girls who've refused the truth: The sweetest tongue has the sharpest tooth.

Never yet was a springtime, when the buds forgot to bloom.

I don’t want normal and easy and simple. I want painful, difficult, devastating, life-changing, extraordinary love.

The subtle are the causes, the gross the effects.

Tolerance to my mind has been greatly overrated . . . . I take as much pleasure in detesting the good brothers and sisters of the [Anti-Saloon] League as they have in hating me.