Nominees [to Supreme Court] shouldn't be expected to pre-commit to ruling on certain issues in a certain way. Nor should senators ask nominees to pledge to rule on issues in a particular way.

What makes a child gifted and talented may not always be good grades in school, but a different way of looking at the world and learning.

The Fed has the ability to put money out, it's got the ability to take money back in, and if they don't do that, we will have hyperinflation worse than we had in 1980 and 1981.

Maybe I should just go home and ride my tractor.

My goal for reform is not necessarily to pass laws but to make sure the laws are being followed.

If I move one way, I lose a couple votes. If I move another way, I lose a couple votes.

Finding out exactly what went wrong is key toward preventing future debacles.

I believe that if you have faith in your own abilities then in the end others will have faith in them too, even if they need a little persuading.

Complacency by the watchdogs hurts both taxpayers and beneficiaries.

I've always considered making it legal for Americans to import their prescription drugs a free-trade issue. Imports create competition and keep domestic industry more responsive to consumers.

The bottom line is, there have been a lot of nuts elected to the United States Senate.

You can have many great ideas in your head, but what makes the difference is the action. Without action upon an idea, there will be no manifestation, no results, and no reward

Stand-up is my favorite thing I've ever done. There's so much independence.

Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.

When you take a photo at 1/1000 of a second, the moment can become an eternal fact, an eternal moment. So we have a philosophical problem of objectivity and subjectivity.

Lord, as You have been to me, so I will be to others. As I pray, I'll measure Your compassion by the cross and Your power by the resurrection.

Linux has definitely made a lot of sense even in a purely materialistic sense.

The only way to keep a secret in Washington, if you are the one person who knows it, is never to tell another living soul.

One day the faithful will have it all!

You have to have a lot of kids.

Each human being was given two qualities: power and the gift. Power directs us towards our destiny; the gift obliges us to share with others what is best in us.