Never give up on something you believe in.

If Republicans are going in the wrong direction, I am still willing to stand up against them.

I've always been a conservative first.

No oyster in the world tastes as good as a Gulf oyster.

You want to prevent war, you talk, talk, but you also have to back it up with actions.

Nuclear-armed Iran ought to be a major concern. And they're moving forward. We have got to roll that back.

I want to continue doing good work where we can expand opportunities for all Americans. That's what we're fighting for.

I made it very clear that I rejected bigotry of all forms.

I understand from experience that unity is easy to call for, but it takes the right kind of leadership to achieve.

An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it.

Respect earned through fear instead of deeds, was not truly respect.

Imagination was given to us to compensate for what we are not a sense of humor was provided to console us for what we are.

Each human being is bred with a unique set of potentials that yearn to be fulfilled as surely as the acorn yearns to become the oak within it.

You can email me, but I prefer letters that come through conventional mail. I like letters that have been licked by strangers.

Everyone here would die for the sake of truth. Everyone here lies constantly for the tiniest chance of personal gain. This is what it means to be a scientist.

I compare human life to a large mansion of many apartments, two of which I can only describe, the doors of the rest being as yet shut upon me.

The most fascinating person I have met so far is indeed Mr. Hugh Hefner. An incredible man!

If we are obsessed by God, nothing else can get into our lives - not concerns, nor tribulation, not worries.

Of the rest some we know to be dead though they walk among us; some are not yet born though they go through the forms of life; others are hundreds of years old though they call themselves thirty-six.