The fact is that a liberal Democrat doesn't want to talk about ideology because they don't want to explain publicly what they're really doing.

One morning, just like 9/11, there's going to be a disaster. I have yet to see the United Nations do anything effective with either Iran or North Korea.

The idea that a congressman would be tainted by accepting money from private industry or private sources is essentially a socialist argument.

Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.

All unemployment compensation should be tied to a job training requirement. Now the fact is, 99 weeks is an associate degree.

President Obama has created at least three jobs that I know of - Bob McDonnell, Chris Christie, and Scott Brown.

It may just be because I get homesick, but I have concluded Washington's cherry blossoms are just plain overrated.

I don't see how the party that says it's the party of the family is going to adopt an immigration policy which destroys families that have been here a quarter century.

I'm not a natural leader. I'm too intellectual; I'm too abstract; I think too much.

If Thomas Edison invented electric light today, Dan Rather would report it on CBS News as, 'Candle-making industry threatened'.

The most important social welfare program in America is a job.

Strength is seeing yourself as you are.

Liberation from the tyranny of the body contributes to greatness, but just as much to greatness in sin as to greatness in virtue.

I Want you to know one thing, I will always be true to you, and I will always say to you, I love you.

He sighed. "Does it get tiring?""What?""Always thinking you're right."I smiled. "No, not really. It's other people not realizing I'm right that gets tiring.

A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.

Ever since I was a kid, I've always been a real deep thinker and stuff.

We only want what success we can get despite encouraging others to share our general view about reality.

To be born in Kentucky is a heritage; to brag about it is a habit; to appreciate it is a virtue.

But I accepted that because God gave me other qualities and I’m grateful.

Go to the winter woods: listen there, look, watch, and "the dead months" will give you a subtler secret than any you have yet found in the forest.