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

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.

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.

In every election in American history both parties have their cliches. The party that has the cliches that ring true wins.

People who tell you to stop living in a fairytale world are very likely people who live in a horror movie.

I do not like the situation but must endure to fulfil the dream.

How long y' think it'll take t'git that wild streak out im?""Well, Brother Tiggins, that'll depend on how long he can weather the leather.

The poetry of this one is called philosophical, of that one philological, of a third rhetorical, and so on. Which is then the poetic poetry?

My desire is to live more to God to-day than yesterday, and to be more holy this hour than the last.

Push yourself again and again. Don't give an inch until the final buzzer sounds.

The surest way to make ourselves crazy is to get involved in other people's business, and the quickest way to become sane and happy is to tend to our own affairs.

Hillary Clinton made no outreach to Muslim Americans or Arab Americans. So they have to insert themselves.

I sometimes wonder what those of us who are writers would become in a nonliterary culture - storytellers? Hermits?

I am volatile for one, rigid for another, angular as an icicle in silver, or voluptuous as a candle flame in gold.