I'm for Simpson-Bowles. It doesn't raise taxes, it closes loopholes and takes the money we would give to a few people and put it on the debt.

What's going on in the Senate is kind of a politics of escalation. We're getting sort of like the Mideast: pay back everybody when you're in charge.

Social Security must be preserved and strengthened. But we need to be candid about the costs and willing to make the tough choices that real reform will require.

We cannot win this war on terror if people are undercutting us. And one way to undercut us is to empower Iran.

What is the environmental platform of the Republican party? I don't know either.

Some people say I'm too blunt and I'm too direct, too straightforward. I think we could use some of that in Washington, D.C.

We’re not generating enough angry white guys to stay in business for the long term.

Dishonest, which is Hillary Clinton in the eyes of the American people, beats crazy. Dishonest loses to normal. So, let's just pick somebody out of the phone book if we have to.

It's really American to avoid paying taxes, legally.

The sooner we get started with alternative energy sources and recognize that fossil fuels makes us less secure as a nation, and more dangerous as a planet, the better off we'll be.

I'm running because I think the world is falling apart.

i prefer to think of the good times. Like when you held my hair as I was vomiting into a bucket.

And there, on that road, that very minute, he started to play - the most lonesome music that them priests ever in their lives heard. It brought water out o' their teeth, so it did.

Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.

There's many a true word spoken in jest; scientists are abominably solemn; therefore scientists miss many a true word.

Of all the rocks upon which we build our lives, we are reminded today that family is the most important.

You have this one life. So just live it and just do it.

Virtue has many preachers, but few martyrs.

If we are going to commit American troops, we must be certain they have a clear mission, an achievable goal and an exit strategy.

The richest grace of ahimsa will descend easily upon the owner of hard discipline.

Do not compare yourself to others. If you do so, you are insulting yourself.