President Obama's decision to bypass the constitutional advice and consent of the Senate is not an isolated incident.

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.

Survival starts by paying attention to what is close at hand and immediate. To look out with idle hope is tantamount to dreaming one's life away.

This is eternity, Antanasia, " he said, both warning and imploring. "Eternity.

The nations which have put mankind and posterity most in their debt have been small states - Israel Athens Florence Elizabethan England.

Love: It is like a cigar. If it goes out, you can light it again but it never tastes quite the same.

We will build an active army of around 540,000, as the Army's chief of staff has said he needs desperately and really must have to protect our country.

The world is just - it's wonderful when you look at all the detail. It's just amazing. Nothing is boring if you look at it carefully.

I think audiences will always like bad guys who kill for no apparent reason. We just like to hate them.

You cannot take the mild approach to the weeds in your mental garden. You have got to hate weeds enough to kill them. Weeds are not something you handle; weeds are something you devastate.

You don't make a film because the audience is ready for it. You make a film because you have questions that are in your gut.

Beirut is where I was born and raised.