If anybody ran a business like that they would be out of business quickly, and Barack Obama's leadership is driving this business, the United States of America, toward a fiscal cliff.

There is only one group to blame for the continued suffering of these innocent victims: the House majority and their Speaker John Boehner.

America under Barack Obama has become a defensive, reactive and weaker country both at home and abroad.

I can guarantee you this, that more pension and benefit reforms which I will consider arbitration reform to be one of them, are things that when they come to my desk, they will be signed.

You know, something may be going down tonight, but it ain’t going to be jobs, sweetheart!

The greatness of America is in the American people. And what we need to do is get the government the hell out of the way and let the American people win once again.

They believe in teachers unions. We believe in teachers.

You see, Mr. President - real leaders don't follow polls. Real leaders change polls.

Today is the day for the complaining to end and for statesmanship to begin. Today I am taking action to cut state spending and balance the budget this year.

I am who I am, but I am not a bully.

I have a job to do. ... If you think right now I give a damn about presidential politics, then you don't know me.

How often must I get lost in a strange land of fairytales so that I can find my true self?

Self-education begins with the passion to read the Scriptures.

It always comes down to just two choices. Get busy living, or get busy dying.

Armenians have more imagination than Mohammedans.

Because of our Congressional committee system, our government is closer to a gerontocracy than a democracy.

I decided that I did not want to follow any of these ideologies or trends, because these also exerted a kind of pressure, and obstructed absolute creative freedom.

I have a lot of good stories for talk shows about the conditions in which I worked.

When I make a vow to God, then I would suggest to you that's even stronger than a handshake in Texas.

Reserve is no more essentially connected with understanding than a church organ with devotion, or wine with good-nature.