Talk is cheap. Words are plentiful. Deeds are precious.

The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

Life is never more fun than when you're the underdog competing against the giants.

When building a team, I always search first for people who love to win. If I can't find any of those, I look for people who hate to lose.

If we really want to know who is responsible for the mess we're in, all we have to do is look in the mirror. You and I own this country, and we are responsible for what happens to it.

In business, people are held accountable. In Washington, nobody is held accountable. In business, people are judged on results. In Washington, people are measured by their ability to get reelected.

Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success.

The debt is like a crazy aunt we keep down in the basement. All the neighbors know she's there, but nobody wants to talk about her.

So many people spend their lives chasing money and end up as the richest men in the cemetery. I don't want to be like that.

War has rules, mud wrestling has rules - politics has no rules.

Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown.

And I meant to tell you: that was a one-in-a-thousand shot."She raised her hand. "Don't.""It was awesome, " George confirmed. "It really was, " Jack said. "His head exploded.

Destroy thefear in youbefore thefear destroysthe lifebefore you.

It's about making a choice to make your marriage a priority, to, kind of, put that at the top of the page, as your mission statement or something.

There's nothing sweet about me, love, " he said.

In the South of England northerners were regarded then as uncouth, brutish, undisciplined savages ...

Talent is the capacity to direct concentrated attention upon the subject: "the gift of seeing what others have not seen.

...I can't see either of these papers being in the next IPCC report. Kevin [Trenberth] and I will keep them out somehow, even if we have to redefine what the peer-review literature is!

Nations around the world look to us for the leadership not merely by strength of arms but by strength of our convictions.

Conservatism is itself a modernism, and in this lies the secret of its success.

Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.