My wife and daughters work. My campaign manager in 2005 was a working mother. I appointed 5 women to my senior staff as Attorney General.

Republican governors are leading the way in helping the private sector create new jobs, reforming government and getting our economy back on track.

I wrote my thesis on welfare policy.

Informed consent is required for every invasive medical procedure, from getting your ears pierced to having an abortion.

Fiscal responsibility and government reform are going to be good themes for governing, well at any time, but particularly coming out of a recovery.

I am all for using business - public and private - to expand healthcare coverage.

I'm really the candidate who has really lived his whole life in suburbia.

Jobs are what give people a sense of fulfillment and self-reliance.

Doctors have an ethical duty to follow the practices and standards of care.

Success in business today requires real-time, mobile access to business opportunities.

I listened to 19 guilty verdicts for my wife and me. And all I could do was sob.

What line separates the lawful wartime targeting of an enemy combatant from the extrajudicial murder of a man suspected, but not convicted, of wrongdoing? (p8)

Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation but as a question.[A caution he gives his students, to be wary of dogmatism.]

Show me what a people admire, and I will tell you everything about them that matters.

These days I'm mostly familiar with two parts of L.A.: one is movie culture, and the other is Asian culture. The Westside is work, and the Eastside is Chinese - which means my friends.

The self is no mystery, the mystery is / That there is something for us to stand on

Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself. And you have no duty towards anyone else.

When I was a bit older I had all of the George Carlin records, all of the Steve Martin records, all of the Cheech and Chong records and all of the Richard Pryor records.

It was obvious that their profits were simply cash borrowed from destiny with some random payback time.

You the one in all, say who I am. Say I am you.

On hitting a shaken opponent - His legs turned to spaghetti and I was all over him like the sauce.