The long experiment with professional politicians and professional government is over, and it failed.

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.

Money follows art. Money wants what it can't buy. Class and talent. And remember while there's a talent for making money, it takes real talent to know how to spend it.

What is best for people is what they do for themselves.

Failed the bright promise of your early day?

I'm big into social studies, the humanities. I really love history and world issues and philosophy and law.

Focus on action! Go on! Do it! Call them! Write it! Say it! Grab it! Who knows what 'awesome stuff' might happen? Yes - Action is the key!

It is possible that people need to believe they are unmanaged if they are to be managed effectively.

I'm not a perfectionist by a long shot, but self-doubt is a large part of my creative process.

I have arrived. I am home. My destination is in each step.

Each day learn something new, and just as important, relearn something old.

Truth is inner harmony.