Nobody in the Senate on a bipartisan fashion trusts the Iranians. They lie. They cheat. They're a murderous regime. They've been trying to develop a nuclear weapon.

What's going on in the Senate is kind of a politics of escalation. We're getting sort of like the Mideast: pay back everybody when you're in charge.

Social Security must be preserved and strengthened. But we need to be candid about the costs and willing to make the tough choices that real reform will require.

We cannot win this war on terror if people are undercutting us. And one way to undercut us is to empower Iran.

What is the environmental platform of the Republican party? I don't know either.

Some people say I'm too blunt and I'm too direct, too straightforward. I think we could use some of that in Washington, D.C.

We’re not generating enough angry white guys to stay in business for the long term.

Dishonest, which is Hillary Clinton in the eyes of the American people, beats crazy. Dishonest loses to normal. So, let's just pick somebody out of the phone book if we have to.

It's really American to avoid paying taxes, legally.

The sooner we get started with alternative energy sources and recognize that fossil fuels makes us less secure as a nation, and more dangerous as a planet, the better off we'll be.

I'm running because I think the world is falling apart.

So much can change from one day to the next, but the one thing that always remains the same is God. Stay focused on Him. In God We Trust.

I came to understand the most intriguing irony of life, that the most intimate partner of life is death. (Page 94)

Go to your business, pleasure, whilst I go to my pleasure, business.

It's so important to have that independence. You know it yourself: Everyone needs evenings of their own.

Your gender identity is who you are. Sexual identity is who you bounce that off of.

Comfortable means gradually more and more flattened down, more and more blunt - less and less sharp and biting into you.

Our bodies like rhythm and our brains like melody and harmony.

I make decisions based on what I think is best for the country.

A company in which anyone is afraid to speak up, to differ, to be daring and original, is closing the coffin door on itself.

The most genius ideas are in the minds of children and lunatics. I describe myself as somewhere in between.