Our tax plan by the way shows the vast, vast majority of Americans, upwards of 96 percent can fill out their taxes on a postcard.

Exploiting people's emotions of fear, envy and anxiety is not hope, it's not change, it's partisanship. We don't need partisanship. We don't need demagoguery, we need solutions.

We don’t want to turn the safety net into a hammock that lulls able-bodied people to lives of dependency and complacency...

Big-government economics breeds crony capitalism. It's corrupt, anything but neutral, and a barrier to broad participation in prosperity.

A free economy and strong communities honor the dignity of every person, rewarding effort with justice, promoting upward mobility, and building solidarity among citizens.

Mr. Vice President, I know you're under a lot of duress to make up for lost ground, but I think people would be better served if we don't keep interrupting each other.

If somebody is going to try to paste a person's view on epistemology to me, then give me Thomas Aquinas. Don't give me Ayn Rand.

And to this day, my Mom is my role model.

Every successful individual knows that his or her achievement depends on a community of persons working together.

We will not spend four years blaming others, we will take responsibility.

We need to stop spending money we don't have.

I really, really need some help and advice. I'm scared... I'm scared of my own home, of my own daughter!

The one thing most important to anything else is to be happy.

Your silent tents of green We deck with fragrant flowers; Yours has the suffering been, The memory shall be ours.

If you are poor, shun association with him who measures men with the yardstick of riches.

Every time something really bad happens, people cry out for safety, and the government answers by taking rights away from good people

First our pleasures die - and then our hopes, and then our fears - and when these are dead, the debt is due dust claims dust - and we die too.

That's what music should be like all the time. No stress, moving things forward, inspiring the youth, and doing it with style and vigor.

I think there is a whole older generation that will go to movies still. People like me; people over 45.

If I, the group leader, expect you, the group member, to be weak, then I elicit the weak part of you. If I expect you to be able to cope, I elicit your strength.

The gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn't been asleep.