I think our nation's at war with radical Islam. The primary goal of these groups is to attack our nation. Washington's a prime target.

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.

But what else are secrets for if not discovery? That is their nature. Only time stands between a mystery and its rightful master.

Molecular gastronomy is not bad... but without sound, basic culinary technique, it is useless.

Lying to the Left is like water to fish

The freedom that will be used by only one man in a million may be more important to society and more beneficial to the majority than any freedom that we all use.

French cinema allows women to look... a certain way and be talented at the same time.

It doesn't matter how much milk you spill as long as you don't lose the cow.

The best poets, after all, exhibit only a tame and civil side of nature. They have not seen the west side of any mountain.

My mother, brave woman, lost her whole family when she decided to marry a black man in the 60s. When the marriage fell apart, she had to come back to her family.

Do not be intimidated by a smart person. It is easier to debate a smart person than to argue with an idiot.

Optimists focus on the place they are going. Pessimists focus on the obstacles along the route. To become an optimist simply look ahead.