It is essential for America to understand what our mission is in Iran, and that is to dissuade Iran from having a nuclear weapon through peaceful and diplomatic means.

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.

The happiness you feel is in direct proportion to the love you give.

It was "Boom Boom" Dupont who had ripped Kit out of the Humvee after the IED went off, the IED that turned the entire undercarriage of his truck into a fiery wall that consumed the five men inside.

Even the best Christian that ever lived is not acting on his own steam--he is only nourishing or protecting a life he could never have acquired by his own efforts.

You bled on the Speaking stars ...I bet there's a law somewhere about that.

I know not whence I came, nor whither I go, nor who I am.

I'm certainly the last person to give advice on, well, anything.

I think the Democratic Party realizes, having lost two presidential elections, we need to do a better job of creating a farm team.

Nothing, however, is as ill founded as the assertion of the alleged equality of all members of the human race.

We love a genius for what he leaves and mourn him for what he takes away

Earth, left silent by the wind of night,Seems shrunken 'neath the gray unmeasured height.