I think the very concept of an elite commission deciding for the American people who deserves to be heard is profoundly wrong.

One morning, just like 9/11, there's going to be a disaster. I have yet to see the United Nations do anything effective with either Iran or North Korea.

The idea that a congressman would be tainted by accepting money from private industry or private sources is essentially a socialist argument.

Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.

All unemployment compensation should be tied to a job training requirement. Now the fact is, 99 weeks is an associate degree.

President Obama has created at least three jobs that I know of - Bob McDonnell, Chris Christie, and Scott Brown.

It may just be because I get homesick, but I have concluded Washington's cherry blossoms are just plain overrated.

I don't see how the party that says it's the party of the family is going to adopt an immigration policy which destroys families that have been here a quarter century.

I'm not a natural leader. I'm too intellectual; I'm too abstract; I think too much.

If Thomas Edison invented electric light today, Dan Rather would report it on CBS News as, 'Candle-making industry threatened'.

The most important social welfare program in America is a job.

You may have some scars from the past but this will fade away in time.

And if the stars should ever die, we'll make our own light, you and I.

They want to be stimulated. They want to read something that can get under their skin and hang out there for a while.

Hearts of oak are our ships Hearts of oak are our men.

I've had an exciting time I married for love and got a little money along with it.

There are moments when our passions speak and decide for us ... like a fire kindled within our being to which everything else in us is mere fuel.

Waste not the remnant of thy life in those imaginations touching other folk, whereby thou contributest not to the common weal.

I think it's so important as an actor that you hang on to your own inner compass, because so many people want to guide you - 'This is what you should you be doing'. But I want to do different things.

Ah, take the Cash, and let the Credit go, Nor heed the rumble of a distant Drum!

There's more chance of me flying Concorde to the moon blindfolded than there is of you taking Wales to the World Cup.