I'm hoping that we're not getting to Second Amendment remedies. I hope the vote will be the cure for the Harry Reid problems.

We’re supposed to depend upon God for our protection and our provision and for our daily bread, not for our government.

We need to diversify our economy, and the energy industry would be a great place to begin that diversification.

I'm pro responsible choice. You know, there is choice to abstain, choice to do contraception. There are all kinds of good choices

And we know that once we have a majority that are dependent upon the government, we will lose our freedom; it says we go into bondage. That's the next stage.

I think that, you know, when we start talking about the Tea Party, people want to marginalize that into some kind of organization or party, but it really isn't.

We have put in so much entitlement into our government that we really have spoiled our citizenryand said, you don't want the jobs that are available.

I'll tell you the first thing we need to do is take Harry Reid out.

They [Republicans] say, 'You're too conservative.' Was Thomas Jefferson too conservative? I'm tired of some people calling me wacky.

People ask me, "What are you going to do to develop jobs in your state?" Well, that's not my job as a US senator...

There is a plan and a purpose, a value to every life, no matter what its location, age, gender or disability.

One has to develop a sense of humor to cope.

I do love to capture beauty in this world. And photos can last the test of time.

Marriage is anti-romantic - husband and wife are terms like 'turkey' and 'goose.' Worse, they denote ownership.

Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.

I would be married, but I'd have no wife, I would be married to a single life.

Motivation is the catalyzing ingredient for every successful innovation. The same is true for learning.

It takes a long time to write a novel when you have to keep interrupting your work to earn money.

Unity must be of the mind and heart, a sense of belonging together and of facing together those who attack it.

Stagnation is death. If you don't change, you die. It's that simple. It's that scary.

Reading is the basic springboard for learning. And books provide the liftoff. They are the great equalizer, opening up new worlds to everyone.