It was not my desire to go off and serve in Vietnam.

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.

There's no need to bully; be kind to unwind!

I don't drink much anymore, because it's supposedly not good for me. I still have gallons of it around though. I smell the cork and do a lot of wishing.

No community dictates to any individual how to live their lives. You can criticize and you can push but people freely choose.

Old age appears hideous to us until we have to choose between it and death.

I love art because it doesn't have rules like baseball. The only rule is to be good. That's the toughest thing to do.

A solitary being is by instinct a wanderer.

Finding another way to do what I know I can do pretty well. A way that stimulates me. I'm always on some sort of learning curve. If I can continually be surprised then I'm alert.

A man has no more right to say an uncivil thing than to act one; no more right to say a rude thing to another than to knock him down.

That transformation is to lose everything is an understatement so vast as to be without meaning. One has to lose everything, and one has to lose the one who has lost everything.

What power has love but forgiveness? In other words by its intervention what has been done can be undone. What good is it otherwise?