I think we need to find somebody that can meet that standard.

We are looking for ways to decrease the dropout rate. I am pretty sure, if we eliminate career and technical education, we are going to increase the dropout rate.

If we abandon marriage, we abandon the family.

I used to be a retailer, and I find it discouraging when somebody comes in and they pick something up and they say, 'Now if you'll sell it to me without the sales tax, I'll buy it.

If you're not at the table, you're on the menu

Every government program needs to be more efficient. Instead of pointing out how other programs can tighten their belts, every program administrator must look inward to save money.

We are truly one nation, under God, indivisible and that we must remain so in the face of any threat to ensure our country remains strong, united and free.

I think we have got to get the Republicans and the Democrats to get back to what I call the fiscal conservative, the issues that drive the tea parties.

The base of our party is commonsense conservatives.If the Republican Party gets back to that base, I think our party's going to be stronger and there's not going to be a need for a third party.

One of my favorite things - and I am sure everybody else's in this Chamber - is to give away money. You really don't get much opposition when you give away money.

Businesses large and small shouldn't have to check the expiration date of a tax provision to see if it's still good.

What no wife of a writer understands is that a writer is working when he's staring out the window.

I am obsessed with books.I am a book collector.

The right people have the right mindsets, they are high-positive, high-innovative, high-influential and high-mature.

Unicorns are not real, though we still dream about them! DREAM ON!

Everyone here says in a surprised manner that I have grown... they are so stupid and do not notice that I am standing up straighter!

Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other.

Don't forget the prices are so high in theater; it isn't really where a young person can go on a date and buy two tickets and take someone out anymore.

You need to eat, but you don't really need to eat filet mignon every night or buy bottles of champagne at a thousand a pop.

We're Jews. When you look at our pubic hair, it should look like Ewoks should be in there.

Avoid the ecstatic adjectives that occupy such disproportionate space in every critic's quiver - words like "enthralling" and "luminous."