If you want a president who will make things better in the African-American community, you are looking at him.

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.

Jake thanked God he had a son to put to bed when he knew somewhere there was a family, right now, waiting for someone who would never come home.

It was really over, I thought. There was no way to go back, to make it stay. There was never that.

I'm fairly convinced that the Kingdom of God is for the broken-hearted. You write of 'powerlessness.' Join the club, we are not in control. God is.

Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment.

Many of us prefer to live in places abandoned by humans. Less work for us. Detroit is very popular.

It's the diversity of intelligence, the diversity of creativity, that is so very much necessary to creating whole solutions.

Ornamentation is the principal part of architecture, considered as a subject of fine art.

You can never have too much, butter.

Whole people see and create wholeness wherever they go; split people see and create splits in everything and everybody.

I've tried body surfing. It's nice.