No one is talking about restructuring Social Security or Medicare for current retirees or for those that are near retirement. For those under 55, the answer is let's talk about it.

We will strengthen our security by building missile defense, restoring our military might, and standing by and strengthening our intelligence officers.

I like PBS. I love Big Bird ... But I'm not going to keep on spending money on things to borrow money from China to pay for it.

I'm not going to wear rose-colored glasses when it comes to Russia, or Mr. Putin.

I have never once regretted missing a business opportunity so that I could be with my children and grandchildren.

My wife drives a couple of Cadillacs.

I have some friends who are NASCAR team owners.

I am in favor of stem-cell research. I am not in favor of creating new human embryos through cloning.

Isn't it fitting that so many of those who have contempt for the private sector will soon find themselves back in it?

There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what.

I'm not familiar precisely with what I said, but I'll stand by what I said, whatever it was.

I drop to the curb like childhood leaving a body.

The reason is, because it’s of more importance to community, that innocence should be protected, than it is, that guilt should be punished.

Old birds are hard to pluck.

The whole idea of interviews is in itself absurd - one cannot answer deep questions about what one's life was like - one writes novels about it.

History is a story written by the finger of God.

I was very into math and calculus, and just always was very - really interested in that. But any sort of numbers.

Only three types of people tell the truth: Kids, the drunk, and the angry.

Working ten hour days allows you to fall behind twice as fast as you could working five hour days.

Payments to the disabled are getting slashed and people like me are getting a tax cut. Who could possibly think that is a good thing?

Let us then try what Love will do: For if Men do once see we love them, we should soon find they would not harm us.