It's the Democrats whose position is that the only problem in Washington, D.C., is the peasants aren't sending enough cash in for the king to spend.

We don't need someone who can think. We need someone with enough digits to hold a pen.

I don't want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub.

We are trying to change the tones in the state capitals, and turn them toward bitter nastiness and partisanship.

My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub.

Obsessions turn people off.

We will make it so that a Democrat cannot govern as a Democrat.

This always confuses liberals, that conservatives like the military and don't like the bureaucracy. That's because the military has their guns pointed out and the bureaucracy has them pointed in.

I was an anti-communist before I was political in other ways.

The future of the Republican Party, all the different folks looking to lead the Republican Party at the national level in the future, recognize we should do immigration reform.

Being married is kind of like being a Ken-doll; you don't get to dress yourself anymore.

Forgiveness is a skill gained by those willing to change.

Nevertheless, life and death are mysterious states, and we know little of the resources of either.

We are all the same. Only our thoughts are slightly different.

When I swore that you're getting more and more beautiful everyday. Well, I was only kidding, honey.

My one big regret is that I didn’t play on for 10 more years.

Most good things happen with time; especially music, which needs time to breathe and to find its own way.

One thing that I've struggled with has been a certain amount of animosity toward the whole human race.

God knows what happens to your time once you have begun to get old. You are busy all the time, you do important things, you work, and yet when you sum it all up the result is nothing.

Things have no power that humans don't put there.

The repose of darkness is deeper on the water than on the land.