My record is, far as I know, unimpeachable.

Our morbidly obese federal government needs not just behavior modification but bariatric surgery.

No feature of the Obama presidency has been sadder than its constant efforts to divide us, to curry favor with some Americans by castigating others.

Our main task is not to see that people of great wealth add to it, but that those without much money have a greater chance to earn some.

I refer to the debt - the new red menace. This time consisting of ink.

The perverse presumption that places the burden of proof on the challenger of spending must be inverted, back to the rule that applies elsewhere in life: 'Prove to me why we should.

Our first thought is always for those on life's first rung, and how we might increase their chances of climbing.

We are taking challenges and turning them into opportunities by developing homegrown, local energy production to become independent from foreign sources.

The public is increasingly disgusted with a steady diet of defamation, and prepared to reward those who refrain from it.

We see government's mission as fostering and enabling the important realms - our businesses, service clubs, Little Leagues, churches - to flourish.

If freedom's best friends cannot unify around a realistic, actionable program of fundamental change, one that attracts and persuades a broad majority of our fellow citizens, big change will not come

I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze.", November 1913)

Conviction is having the mindset to never doubt your self-understanding

When you've only got two choices, and you don't like either of them, make a third choice.

I was never interested in 'Teen Beat' like roles. I just wanted to work.

We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is to learn the art of being irrational in a reasonable way.

I had to get into a place for myself of thinking what I would create for myself if I didn't have to worry about making money.

To prejudge other men's notions before we have looked into them is not to show their darkness but to put out our own eyes.

The Haiti that has been waiting for help and not moving no longer exists. Enough handouts; we need hands up. Enough aid; we need trade.

Even David Hume, one of history most famous skeptics, said it's just barely possible that God exists.

Crime generally punishes itself.