I will not create jobs or hold jobs that kill people, and that plant - that plant kills people.

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.

Failures when are huge, dimish the small gasps of success, but these gasps are enough to bring the successful in you

In ancient Greece, the word for "cook, " "butcher, " and "priest" was the same -- mageiros -- and the word shares an etymological root with "magic.

Union of hearts, not hands, does a marriage make, and sympathy of mind keeps love awake.

People have different ideas of who I am. And I think because I'm very private, people make up the strangest ideas of who and why and what.

We are trying to make the world a better place, but that is not necessarily what we accomplish. Many of the problems which preoccupy us are basically insoluble.

It's still too early to say how my wife will influence my life. But I do already know that it's sometimes hard work living with her.

I love all kinds of different music.

The Chinese say it's better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one.

I'm lucky; my parents have never said to me, "You're a kid, so you just don't know." They say, "How can we discuss the world and learn from these events together?"

It's a new era in fashion - there are no rules.