My wife and I have what's known as mixed marriage. I am a Methodist, she is a Muslim. So we're keeping it in the M's.

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.

Oh! And they read English novels! David! Did you ever look into an English novel? Well, do not trouble yourself. It is nothing but a lot of nonsense about girls with fanciful names getting married.

Intuition is seeing the solution.....its emotion and intellect going together.

Invest in basic research and recruit the best minds.

Science has taken away our religion.

There was a time when time did not yet exist. … The rejection of birth is nothing but the nostalgia for this time before time.

To steale the Hog, and give the feet for almes. [To steal the hog, and give the feet to alms.]

A man kept his character even when he was insane.

Marriage succeeds only as lifetime commitment with no escape clauses.

Opportunity is infinite; once you know that, opportunity is omni-existent.

The most incredible gift you can give someone in a video is to help them feel less alone... The things that make us feel the most alone, have the greatest power to connect us