If we bankrupt America, we will all pay the price.

We are looking for ways to decrease the dropout rate. I am pretty sure, if we eliminate career and technical education, we are going to increase the dropout rate.

If we abandon marriage, we abandon the family.

I used to be a retailer, and I find it discouraging when somebody comes in and they pick something up and they say, 'Now if you'll sell it to me without the sales tax, I'll buy it.

If you're not at the table, you're on the menu

Every government program needs to be more efficient. Instead of pointing out how other programs can tighten their belts, every program administrator must look inward to save money.

We are truly one nation, under God, indivisible and that we must remain so in the face of any threat to ensure our country remains strong, united and free.

I think we have got to get the Republicans and the Democrats to get back to what I call the fiscal conservative, the issues that drive the tea parties.

The base of our party is commonsense conservatives.If the Republican Party gets back to that base, I think our party's going to be stronger and there's not going to be a need for a third party.

One of my favorite things - and I am sure everybody else's in this Chamber - is to give away money. You really don't get much opposition when you give away money.

Businesses large and small shouldn't have to check the expiration date of a tax provision to see if it's still good.

Never set fire to a bridge while you are still crossing it.

Stories require faith, not facts.

Man's feelings are always purest and most glowing in the hour of meeting and of farewell.

The heaven of the envied is hell for the envious.

Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is.

Universal access to human knowledge is in our grasp, for the first time in the history of the world. This is not a bad thing.

For Faith is the beginning and the end is love, and God is the two of them brought into unity. After these comes whatever else makes up a Christian gentleman.

The DVD does make it a little easier for myself to trim things that are otherwise very difficult to let loose of - knowing that they'll make it on the DVD.

I'm not going to hang out with celebrities, I'm not going to parties. I have two songs due for Moana next week, and I'm going to go and spend some time with Maui and Moana in the ocean, in my mind.

The human intellect owes its superiority over that of the lower animals in great measure to the stimulus which alcohol has given imagination.