The budget acknowledges the importance of maintaining our ports and waterways to encourage commercial deep-draft navigation and economic competitiveness.

Why - because as a oil and gas small business owner - I know if someone is not doing their job, they should not get paid. Again leadership by example.

I don't intend to spend my morning being lectured to by a president whose failed policies have put our children and grandchildren in a huge burden of debt.

I have respectfully declined the president's invitation to the White House today.

Until the President produces a responsible deficit reduction plan, I'm not going to the White House to negotiate with myself.

I know the Lord loves me.

Chameleonesque, hobbitish, unicorned, stompled, selfishism, and unwakeable may not be real words, but you do know what they mean.

Don't change for me, I'll not change for you.I don't deserve it, you don't deserve it.

It's interesting that people always want to ask me and a lot of working mothers, how do you do it? And it's like well, just like everybody else. It proves it's a bad question.

Continued eloquence is wearisome.

I didn't go up to the plate thinking, 'OK, my goal now is to get a hit'-I tried not to think about [the streak].

A painting without something disturbing in it – what's that?.

Great boss is challenging people in the right way. Leading, not managing. Supporting them by giving them both a platform they can count on and expectations they can stretch for.

The wheel is come full circle.

Life is a classroom -- only those who are willing to be lifelong learners will move to the head of the class.