The public is increasingly disgusted with a steady diet of defamation, and prepared to reward those who refrain from it.

Our morbidly obese federal government needs not just behavior modification but bariatric surgery.

No feature of the Obama presidency has been sadder than its constant efforts to divide us, to curry favor with some Americans by castigating others.

Our main task is not to see that people of great wealth add to it, but that those without much money have a greater chance to earn some.

I refer to the debt - the new red menace. This time consisting of ink.

The perverse presumption that places the burden of proof on the challenger of spending must be inverted, back to the rule that applies elsewhere in life: 'Prove to me why we should.

Our first thought is always for those on life's first rung, and how we might increase their chances of climbing.

We are taking challenges and turning them into opportunities by developing homegrown, local energy production to become independent from foreign sources.

We see government's mission as fostering and enabling the important realms - our businesses, service clubs, Little Leagues, churches - to flourish.

If freedom's best friends cannot unify around a realistic, actionable program of fundamental change, one that attracts and persuades a broad majority of our fellow citizens, big change will not come

Every successful enterprise has a very clear strategic purpose.

Your child is least interested in what the report card says. All that matters to him / her is what you say on seeing the report card.

The EPA has no legal authority to expand the definition of navigable waters under the Clean Water Act, as the Supreme Court has repeatedly made clear.

I'm a really eclectic reader.

For every perfect little town, there's something ugly underneath. No dream without the nightmare.

We have built into the constitution of the human race the habit and desire of taking, as divorced from its natural precursor and concomitant of making.

I'll pat myself on the back and admit I have talent. Beyond that, I just happened to be in the right place at the right time

The law was given to drive us to despair over the hopelessness of ever being able to keep it.

There is a quickness of perception in some, a nicety in the discernment of character, a natural penetration, in short, which no experience in others can equal.

He got drunk last night, kicked Mama down the stairs. But I'm alright, so I don't care.

Nobody did nothin' to nobody.