The future of the Republican Party, all the different folks looking to lead the Republican Party at the national level in the future, recognize we should do immigration reform.

We don't need someone who can think. We need someone with enough digits to hold a pen.

I don't want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub.

We are trying to change the tones in the state capitals, and turn them toward bitter nastiness and partisanship.

My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub.

Obsessions turn people off.

We will make it so that a Democrat cannot govern as a Democrat.

This always confuses liberals, that conservatives like the military and don't like the bureaucracy. That's because the military has their guns pointed out and the bureaucracy has them pointed in.

I was an anti-communist before I was political in other ways.

Being married is kind of like being a Ken-doll; you don't get to dress yourself anymore.

The goal is to reduce the size and scope of government spending, not to focus on the deficit. The deficit is the symptom of the disease.

Life is 10 percent what you make itand 90 percent how you take it.

Have you become a song in someone's heart?

Light tomorrow with today!

The only humility that is really ours is not that which we try to show before God in prayer, but that which we carry with us in our daily conduct.

We are given an autonomy and the real autonomy... and God would much rather we went freely to hell than compel us to go to heaven.

The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.

I think it is important to win a match, but I think what is even more important is the manner in which you win.

I always tell myself, When Im working on my record, I wont cut my hair. I get so focused on the music that Im not really going to the hair shop and getting cut up. I just have one thing to focus on.

Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.

I feel like I do better when I'm offbalance. Every moment is that much more vibrant.