People are tired of just yelling at the TV set. They actually are going to turn out and vote.

And if you like 14.4 percent unemployment, if you like the fact that 70 percent of home mortgages in Nevada are underwater, then stay the course. Vote for Harry Reid

Today 25 million Texans can celebrate our liberty, and honor the founding generation of Texans who secured it for us. Happy Texas Independence Day, and God Bless Texas.

If there is a nuclear tactic being used here, I submit it is the use of that obstruction where a willful minority blocks a bipartisan majority from voting on the President's judicial nominees.

The enemy is not Islam, the great world faith, but a perversion of Islam.

Now you must raise your children up in a world where that union of man and box turtle is on the same legal footing as man and wife

Why is it that half of the households in America pay zero income tax? We need some real tax reform.

One of the dangers of being here [the Senate] a while is you may have been on record directly and diametrically opposed to what one is saying today.

I'm speaking of the ability of people of faith to freely express their beliefs in the public square.

I think we ought to talk about what the American people want, and that is jobs and get the economy on track.

A Supreme Court nomination and appointment is not a roving commission to rewrite our laws.

The fundamental condition of childhood is powerlessness.

(reporter interviewing Broadway dancer Tommy Tune:) 'Do you think that greats like Fred Astaire possessed some kind of magic?'(pause)'No. Magic possesses them'.

Ultimate influence is the ability to get the results you want from others while helping them feel genuinely good about themselves.

I want girls to feel the confidence you get from being smart. They get so many messages that tell them the most important thing is to be beautiful.

One of my major competitors was Harold Smith. Smith beat me in 1977. I was loafing during that competition.

My only regret in the theater is that I could never sit out front and watch me.

I finally moved out of my parent's house. It was only fair to let my sister have her own room.

In one degree or another we all struggle with selfishness. Since it is so common, why worry about selfishness anyway? Because selfishness is really self-destruction in slow motion.

Time is really the only capital that any human being has, and the only thing he can't afford to lose.

If there is no dull and determined effort, there will be no brilliant achievement.