President Obama trusts in the wisdom of government. I put my trust in the ingenuity and creativity and commitment to hard work of the American people.

We will strengthen our security by building missile defense, restoring our military might, and standing by and strengthening our intelligence officers.

I like PBS. I love Big Bird ... But I'm not going to keep on spending money on things to borrow money from China to pay for it.

I'm not going to wear rose-colored glasses when it comes to Russia, or Mr. Putin.

I have never once regretted missing a business opportunity so that I could be with my children and grandchildren.

My wife drives a couple of Cadillacs.

I have some friends who are NASCAR team owners.

I am in favor of stem-cell research. I am not in favor of creating new human embryos through cloning.

Isn't it fitting that so many of those who have contempt for the private sector will soon find themselves back in it?

There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what.

I'm not familiar precisely with what I said, but I'll stand by what I said, whatever it was.

The wind plays its own music.

Think much, say little, do much.

Anybody who has interacted with me will definitely find me to be a chirpy person.

I'm of the opinion that poetry is always political, and cannot help but be so, regardless of the poet's intent, given that refusing to deal in politics is in itself a political act.

I didn't have much to say to anybody but kept to myself and my books. With my eyes closed, I would touch a familiar book and draw it's fragrance deep inside me. This was enough to make me happy.

Societies depend on agreed rules.

Sometimes I will tweet an interview I have coming up and ask my followers what questions they have for the celebrity. I feel that way I can really know first hand what people want to hear answered.

Posterity will talk of Washington as the founder of a great empire, when my name shall be lost in the vortex of revolution.

There's no reason the Rangers can't get to the top.

And I sit in my jacuzzi with my script.