I'm always jacked up. I'm pumped up. It's just, I love life and I'm having fun.

I’ve always been an entrepreneur, but it’s never been about the money. I like a challenge, the harder the better.

I wake up every morning singing The Star-Spangled Banner.

I've signed thousands of documents, but never read them.

You help me, I'll help you. That's politics.

Let me tell you, it’s a lot easier to raise money for a governor. They have all kinds of business to hand out, road contracts, construction jobs, you name it.

Someone who lies about the little things will lie about the big things too.

People ought to quit talking to the press.

Everyday is a new opportunity.

Anyone in politics would like to have great economic numbers.

I'm focused on this election, I am going full time for Senator Obama. But I never rule anything out. Everyday is a new opportunity. I would like to be Pope if I could.

No man, ever indulged more freely or happily in that playful facetiousness which gratifies all without wounding any.

Every thought has the power to spread its effects on other minds as a wave can spread all over the ocean.

Wife: a former girlfriend

all the tall mad mountains of her mind

Books are to the mind as the whetstone for the knives.

Anything of worth is costly: devotion to Christ, a strong marriage, financial responsibility, a life of integrity, and of course, fearlessly feminine mothering.

In effect, nobody who is not from the losing classes has ever been thrust into a death cell in these United States.

People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don't really read children's books.

God is not hostile to sinners, but only to unbelievers.

Great,” Percy said. “I always wanted to be glue.