I want America to be more like America, if you will. I want the songs, that patriotism we have.

We will strengthen our security by building missile defense, restoring our military might, and standing by and strengthening our intelligence officers.

I like PBS. I love Big Bird ... But I'm not going to keep on spending money on things to borrow money from China to pay for it.

I'm not going to wear rose-colored glasses when it comes to Russia, or Mr. Putin.

I have never once regretted missing a business opportunity so that I could be with my children and grandchildren.

My wife drives a couple of Cadillacs.

I have some friends who are NASCAR team owners.

I am in favor of stem-cell research. I am not in favor of creating new human embryos through cloning.

Isn't it fitting that so many of those who have contempt for the private sector will soon find themselves back in it?

There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what.

I'm not familiar precisely with what I said, but I'll stand by what I said, whatever it was.

Once you have your characters, they tell you what to write, you don't tell them.

I would have to talk for a year to repeat a single on of my works with words.

It was my effort, in depicting the West, to depict it as it was.

Because of the gospel, God is doing a new work, and he invites us to participate in this innovative work that affects the entirety of our world.

I try not to fake anything.

Or - perhaps - I should just worry about my own behavior and let others be who they are.

Never steal anything so small that you'll have to go to an unpleasant city jail for it instead of a minimum-security federal tennis prison.

The Warrior knows about the "waterfall effect".

Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.

But maybe the best thing I learnt was this: that we cannot know a person's soul and nature until we've sat beside them, and talked.