If you would not confront your neighbor and demand his money at the point of a gun to solve every new problem that may appear in your life, you should not allow the government to do it for you.

The American citizen must be made aware that today a relatively small group of people is proclaiming its purposes to be the will of the People. That elitist approach to government must be repudiated.

The advantage of the cauliflower is that if all else fails, you can always cover it with melted cheese and eat it.

I continue to believe that the American people have a love-hate relationship with inflation. They hate inflation but love everything that causes it.

Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who don't vote.

Infinitely more important than sharing one's material wealth is sharing the wealth of ourselves-our time and energy, our passion and commitment, and, above all, our love.

If you really want to help the poor, help the rich. They're the ones who will invest, build more factories, create more jobs.

Freedom is strangely ephemeral. It is something like breathing; one only becomes acutely aware of its importance when one is choking.

Productivity and the growth of productivity must be the first economic consideration at all times, not the last. That is the source of technological innovation, jobs, and wealth.

Achievers must not be penalized or parasites rewarded if we aspire to a healthy, productive, and ethical society.

The nation ought to have a tax system which looks like someone designed it on purpose.

True love is a mirage… it does exist. We do get enamored and infatuated by it but we have to keep following it till eternity.

If there is no God or no evidence of God and certainly no evidence of a very morally engaged god, then whatever has to be done has to be done by us.

It has been an amazing presidential election in 2016. AMAZING. And I don't take it for granted. This sort of race comes along once every century or so.

Writing a book is like masturbation, and making a movie is like an orgy.

Positioning, anticipation and technique create quickness. Therefore, you can always get quicker

To tell a woman who is forty, "You look like sixteen," is boloney. The blarney way of saying it is "Tell me how old you are, I should like to know at what age women are the most beautiful.

I absolutely loved my time at 'Brothers & Sisters,' what I learned and everything that went with it. It was an incredibly formative time for me.

Miss the audience's heart as a filmmaker, and the only wallet that gets hit will be your own. That's because the heart is always the first target in story telling.