The budget should be balanced, the treasury should be refilled, the public debt should be reduced and the arrogance of public officials should be controlled.

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.

Are you ready for the God that dwells in your heart ?

I don't want to die in a car accident. When I die it'll be a glorious day. It'll probably be a waterfall.

Better to be a spirit with the earth beneath you than a corpse pinned tight by the weight of the world.

Work without contemplation is never enough.

People prefer to believe what they want to be true.

Love the fading flowers as much as you love the undifferentiated which lasts forever.

You go in thinking you have to do this all by yourself, and what I learned was no, when you hire great people, they do so much for you.

I just personally decided I was going to be the first woman fighter pilot.

Although Christ was God, he took flesh; and having been made man, he remained what he was, God.

Secretly, I think everyone who makes fun of California really does want to be in California.