I was embarrassed when I went and told my parents that I was thinking about running for public office.

My dad just imprinted in my mind from a very young age that you always do what you say you're gonna do when you say you're gonna do it.

I didn't go to Harvard or Princeton, but I can count - the defunding box canyon is a tactic that will fail and weaken our position.

We need to make sure we have secure borders.

I'm a lawmaker, but I really don't like laws.

Not every problem is solvable, okay.

I want to see the economy rebound.

I saved $8,000 and created a construction company when I was 25.

If it took multiple debt ceiling hikes, I'd rather achieve the savings.

It is not really our country so much is the problem, it's sort of the parasitic relationship that Canada, and France, and other countries have towards us.

I started working when I was 13, picking up trash, bagging ice.

I have stopped painting. I stand in front of the easel, brush in hand, but my mind is blank. It is as if I have been struck by a strange kind of blindness.

Speak kindly to with adult women as you would to your mother.

We are figments of the same imagination… We are one

To receive many blessings, read to your children from the womb to the tomb.

I know of no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution.

He who gives up shyness in monetary dealings, in acquiring knowledge, in eating and in business, becomes happy.

Faced with having to change our views or prove that there is no need to do so, most of us immediately get busy on the proof.

Artichoke: That vegetable of which one has more at the finish than at the start of dinner.

Beauty ensnares hearts, captures minds, and stirs up emotional wildfires. From Plato to pinups, images of human beauty have catered to a limitless desire to see and imagine an ideal human form.

I think that there is generally less of a community and that the fragmentation of the left is a symptom. I think that it is less and less possible to take for granted certain cultural references.