I think we ought to talk about what the American people want, and that is jobs and get the economy on track.

And if you like 14.4 percent unemployment, if you like the fact that 70 percent of home mortgages in Nevada are underwater, then stay the course. Vote for Harry Reid

Today 25 million Texans can celebrate our liberty, and honor the founding generation of Texans who secured it for us. Happy Texas Independence Day, and God Bless Texas.

If there is a nuclear tactic being used here, I submit it is the use of that obstruction where a willful minority blocks a bipartisan majority from voting on the President's judicial nominees.

The enemy is not Islam, the great world faith, but a perversion of Islam.

Now you must raise your children up in a world where that union of man and box turtle is on the same legal footing as man and wife

Why is it that half of the households in America pay zero income tax? We need some real tax reform.

One of the dangers of being here [the Senate] a while is you may have been on record directly and diametrically opposed to what one is saying today.

I'm speaking of the ability of people of faith to freely express their beliefs in the public square.

A Supreme Court nomination and appointment is not a roving commission to rewrite our laws.

I don't know whether John Roberts has a twin, perhaps a sister or, uh, someone with a Hispanic last name

Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.

Waiting in line for something mundane is very boring. Waiting for my doctor to see me and waiting for my dentist to see me, yes, that is boring.

In truth, making films doesn't feel like hard work because I always have such a good time doing it.

What is enlightenment, anyway? I don't know if I can really put it into words, perhaps you can. I can't.

All of my books have the potential to become movies, it's just a question of finding a studio who wants to get behind me and put up the money to make the movie.

Life, sometimes so wearying is worth its weight in gold the experience of traveling lends a wisdom that is old.

No great deed, private or public, has ever been undertaken in a bliss of certainty.

We are at a point in history where a proper attention to space, and especially near space, may be absolutely crucial in bringing the world together.

We all have different relationships with music. But the music is always there.

I wear a hat on stage so that people won't be blinded by the reflection from my head. Also, if I don't wear a hat, there's no way that the hat can be at that level by itself on the stage.