I think the most overused words in our vocabulary in the South are black and white.

Wearing a Democratic label no longer matches what I know about my country and its possibilities.

This time, instead of moving oceans and healing planets, let's get our bills in order and pay down the debt so we control our own future.

You talk about the values that you have whether they're in favor or not in favor. That's how you lead. The reality is, we're losing more and more elections.

Sometimes running for Congress is a four-year strategy in terms of getting out there and building a network.

The repeal of racist language in the Constitution of Alabama was and still is a necessary step in the state's ability to progress.

John F. Kennedy asked us what we could do for America. This Democratic Party asks what can government give you. Don't worry about paying the bill, it's on your kids and grandkids.

Ask yourself if these Democrats still speak for you. When they say we have a duty to grow government even when we can't afford it, does it sound like compassion to you - or recklessness?

I know 100 percent what it's like to have people tell you that you can't hold an office because of your color, and to have people vote based on that belief.

Now, America is a land of second chances, and I gather you have room for the estimated 6 million of us who know we got it wrong in 2008 and who want to fix it.

The Democrats' ads convince me that Governor Romney can't sing, but his record convinces me he knows how to lead, and I think you know which skill we need more.

There is no such thing as a boring person when you are lonely or extremely bored.

Not much to look at, but as with all true beauty it is what's inside that counts.

Tell me you won't go, tell me you'll stay forever, tell me you love me.

The past will only catch you, if you ran from it to begin with.

There was always an unspoken generosity about my mom.

Those who leave the tradition of truth do not escape into something which we call Freedom. They only escape into something else, which we call Fashion.

Congratulations. The fact that you're reading this means you've taken one giant step closer to surviving until your next birthday.

When I was growing up, my idea of Led Zeppelin was all epic lasers, castles, and ten-minute drum solos - that sort of thing.

My daughter Karen was born in 1958, the year my first Paddington book came out, so she grew up with him.

I see the mind of the five-year-old as a volcano with two vents: destructiveness and creativeness.