The problem is that this round from its inception has had agriculture at its centerpiece. The EU and the U. S. and other WTO members cannot wish that away, that is a reality.

The tax code is now nine times longer than the Bible, and not nearly as interesting.

I'd like to think I'm a serious legislator and trying to get things done.

Folks, do you agree with me that we cannot afford four more years of Barack Obama?

With the strong bipartisan rejection of the Dorgan amendment today, the Senate cast a vote in favor of the U.S. working to knock down unfair trade barriers that hurt American business and farmers

If you start very far to the left, it's harder to get to the middle.

Things are not getting better. They are getting worse. We need to elect Mitt Romney to turn things around.

If you can't even acknowledge that you have to fix Social Security, that's not a very good starting point.

I told my staff that I'm so boring that I didn't even know I was boring.

How does the weakness of the dollar affect your business?

All of our sons and daughters ought to have the same opportunity to experience the joy and stability of marriage.

The moment a person feels he has nothing left to learn is the moment life prepares to hit him hard enough to correct such ignorance.

He reminded her of the way male lions look sad, as if their nobility is a terrible weight.

Respect both what you need to know and what you don't need to know. Respect mystery, for mystery is still needed to run the universe.

Yesterday's abomination is today's rule.

Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. Unless he doesn't like sushi, then you also have to teach him to cook.

A pair of hands clasped in earnest prayer is the best means we have this side of heaven to hang onto Jesus for dear life.

Financial markets ... resent any kind of government interference but they hold a belief deep down that if conditions get really rough the authorities will step in.

In this world it is very dangerous to be weak.

The essential thing in life is not so much conquering as fighting well.

You can be writing every day. When you go on a road trip, the trip itself becomes part of the story.