I will go to the NAACP convention, and explain to the African-American community why they should demand paychecks instead of food stamps.

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.

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away.

The fact that people are in positions does not justify the means that they are leaders. A leader can be blind and to know this, check his sense of vision.

There is no index of character as sure as the voice.

Over a period of time it's been driven home to me that I'm not going to be the most popular writer in the world so I'm always happy when anything in any way is accepted.

The processing capacity of the conscious mind has been estimated at 120 bits per second.

And I wasn't convinced that I was the most talented person in the world.

At Texas A&M you learn first to follow, then to develop and practice your leadership skills, and finally you become someone others want to follow.

My wife sent me a Valentine card that said, "Take my heart, take my lips, take my soul." That's just like her. She kept the good parts for herself.

Someone said DX over here? It was this dipshit with the cowboy hat over here.

What do you live for? Would you die for it?