In America, the people are not subjects of government, the government is subject to the people.

In the myopic world of the liberals, guns are responsible for evil instead of the perpetrator of evil. But criminals are not bound by our laws. That's what makes them criminals.

The foundation for future prosperity is built on the bedrock of good jobs and great schools. We are building a strong foundation one job at a time and one educated Texan at a time.

Running for the presidency's not an IQ test.

I may have the genetic coding that Im inclined to be an alcoholic, but I have the desire not to do that, and I look at the homosexual issue the same way.

I hope I am the Tim Tebow of the Iowa caucuses.

Every life is precious.

Every barrel of oil that comes out of those sands in Canada is a barrel of oil that we don't have to buy from a foreign source.

Dark economic clouds are dissipating into an emerging blue sky of opportunity.

Armed and law-abiding citizens are a greater deterrent to violent crime than 1,000 laws passed by Congress.

America needs jobs, smaller government, less spending and a president with the courage to offer more than yet another speech.

Either find a way, or make one....You can bend but you can never break if you want to achieve excellence.

The world is like a board with holes in it and the square men have got into the round holes and the round into the square.

The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism.

There should be balance in all our actions; to be either extreme or lukewarm is equally bad.

I am trying to release endorphins here. I am not preaching to you - I am trying to make you laugh.

I have not got accustomed to English life. The food is truly disastrous and it rains all the time.

Remember: Christ is calling you; the Church needs you; the Pope believes in you and he expects great things of you.

Learning a [skateboard] trick is kind of like a puzzle; you have to keep trying, and trying, and trying, and adapting and changing, and adapting and changing, and finally it works.

Forget every touch or sound that did not teach you how to dance

I like talking about things that are taboo, because it makes them not taboo anymore.