Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.

One morning, just like 9/11, there's going to be a disaster. I have yet to see the United Nations do anything effective with either Iran or North Korea.

The idea that a congressman would be tainted by accepting money from private industry or private sources is essentially a socialist argument.

All unemployment compensation should be tied to a job training requirement. Now the fact is, 99 weeks is an associate degree.

President Obama has created at least three jobs that I know of - Bob McDonnell, Chris Christie, and Scott Brown.

It may just be because I get homesick, but I have concluded Washington's cherry blossoms are just plain overrated.

I don't see how the party that says it's the party of the family is going to adopt an immigration policy which destroys families that have been here a quarter century.

I'm not a natural leader. I'm too intellectual; I'm too abstract; I think too much.

If Thomas Edison invented electric light today, Dan Rather would report it on CBS News as, 'Candle-making industry threatened'.

The most important social welfare program in America is a job.

In every election in American history both parties have their cliches. The party that has the cliches that ring true wins.

People Ignore, People Hurt, People Confuse. But, Nature Talks, Nature Heals, Nature Answers.

Loving her is so damn easy. It’s as natural as breathing or the beating of a heart.

The mouth is but a megaphone to the desires of the heart.

The best spot painting you can have by me is one painted by Rachel.

An email address is like a customer's "digital fingerprint".

Celebrities in general are pretty democratic, just being in the theater. Plus, I'm from Chicago. But Obama's sensible... he's just a reasonable, sensible human being.

Writing is harder than anything else; at least starting to write is.

You are running to seek your friend. Let your feet run, but your mind need not.

Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors, who when their turn comes will manufacture professors.

A failed experiment can be more important than a trivial design