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

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.

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

In cold and heat, in rain and wind, the soul united to God says, "I want it to be warm, to be cold, windy, to rain, because God wills it."

A brand new mediocrity is thought more of than accustomed excellence.

I think once you have done all you can to a manuscript, let it find its way in the world.

Thinking has to be learned in the way dancing has to be learned.

It's not just a revue where one song is done, then another. There are concepts and ideas at work.

The most important part of living life on your own terms and having it all is having faith and belief in yourself and in the intelligent power that created you.

As you warm the climate, you basically raise the speed limit on hurricanes

Time is a brisk wind, for each hour it brings something new... but who can understand and measure its sharp breath, its mystery and its design?

Do not be afraid of undertaking too much of what you can do without coming and going; but fear only the thought of doing more than you are doing and more than God is giving you the means to do.

It is wrong to condemn people for doing a thing and then offer no alternative but failure. A person could get mad about that.