Look, not everybody plays well with each other on the playground. I get that, that's politics.

There is no struggle, rift, fight between those who claim the banner of the tea party and those who are in the Republican Party. We work together.

We are cooling. We are not warming. The warming you see out there, the supposed warming, and I use my finger quotation marks here, is part of the cooling process.

The reality of it is I think the GOP - Republicans and certainly conservatives - will partner with the Tea Party movement around this country.

The right to do something doesn't mean it's the right thing to do.

We need to uptick our image with everyone, including one-armed midgets.

Not in the history of mankind has the government ever created a job.

My intent was not to go after Rush - I have enormous respect for Rush Limbaugh. I was maybe a little bit inarticulate. ... There was no attempt on my part to diminish his voice or his leadership.

Congress must also enact pro-growth policies that encourage the economy to expand: like making tax relief permanent and repealing the death tax.

Clearly a black man's life is not worth a ham sandwich.

Why do members of my party constantly go after the president personally?

Michael has never cried during a Broadway show. Except in that scene where Tarzan's ape father is brutally murdered.And that was only because he was laughing so hard.

The ability to kill someone doesn't make you a leader, and it doesn't make someone great. There's nothing great about dying or taking a life.

Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.

Efficiency was a higher priority than imagination.

Popular and democratic government is the only constitution which suits France, and all those who are worthy of the name of men.

If you are going to try and change things, you had better have your wits about you.

Before I met Jesus I wanted to be a professional pool player.

Sometimes, with autobiographies, it turns into a bit of score-settling. And looking back, I don't feel the way I did then, and you kind of grow up and let it go behind you.

Be you own hero, be your own saviour, send all your suffering into the fire. Let no foot, mark your ground, let no hand, hold you down.

The Republican Congress is like a groundhog afraid of its shadow when a government shutdown is talked about.