The corporate income tax, in particular, is a tax that puts American corporations at a disadvantage.

When we leave money in the hands of taxpayers, they buy things, they pay taxes, they grow government.

I don't believe in deadlines, I don't believe in telling the enemy when we're going to withdraw.

I'm coming to Washington D.C. to do the people's work, and the people's work has to do with - reducing spending, and - cutting budgets, and - and trying to get a grip on the size of government.

We've got to make sure our younger workers understand that as life expectancy increases, the retirement date for benefits increases also.

In my political career, I'd like to see a constitutional balanced budget amendment.

In my life, I'd like to play more golf and, and get a decent handicap.

I am who I am. I'm going to speak my mind.

I think we need to make sure that we are putting Social Security on a sustainable path. It's absolutely something that the federal government is going to be involved in, in the future.

A jury could very well conclude that this is a case of buyer's remorse.

Well, we certainly need to raise the retirement age. I've told my 19-year-old and my 22-year-old that they're not going to be getting retirement benefits at age 62.

Take a simple idea and take it seriously.

Moderation is the key to old age and the doorway to boredom

I would tell 17-year-olds to be proud of who you are. Don't try to change yourself for others. Focus on school and your future. Boys and friends will come and go, just focus on you and your future.

Moving forward in science is as much unwinding the distorted thinking of the past as it is putting a clearer idea on the table.

How about this John Edwards thing? Imagine that, a personal injury attorney who turns out to be a sleaze ball. Who could have seen that coming?

Youth, what man's age is like to be, doth show; We may our ends by our beginnings know.

I think any big success is paralyzing. I have observed it in others.

I've never worked in politics, never been a member of an official committee or a political party.

I venerate the man whose heart is warm, Whose hands are pure, whose doctrine and whose life, Coincident, exhibit lucid proof That he is honest in the sacred cause.

Kenya is a mercurial character. I feel the country has a presence that can turn on its people in a very violent way.