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.

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.

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.

The goal is to reduce the size and scope of government spending, not to focus on the deficit. The deficit is the symptom of the disease.

Dream anything hard enough, and it can be yours.

Creativity is impossible unless existing rules are broken. Let's break some.

Your true destiny on earth will always be greater than your best positive imagination of your future.

The secret of discipline is motivation. When a man is sufficiently motivated discipline will take care of itself.

The spoken word is man's physician in grief. For this alone has soothing charms for the soul.

No Spanish government has given into terror and no government will do that.

My own way of thinking is to ponder long and I hope deeply on problems and for a long time which I keep away for years and years and I never really let them go.

Sadhana is the real currency that you can use anywhere

When, in the autumn of 1947, I was fired from the first and only job I have ever held, I wanted one thing out of life: to become a writer.

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.