The reality of it is I think the GOP - Republicans and certainly conservatives - will partner with the Tea Party movement around this country.

There is no struggle, rift, fight between those who claim the banner of the tea party and those who are in the Republican Party. We work together.

We are cooling. We are not warming. The warming you see out there, the supposed warming, and I use my finger quotation marks here, is part of the cooling process.

The right to do something doesn't mean it's the right thing to do.

We need to uptick our image with everyone, including one-armed midgets.

Not in the history of mankind has the government ever created a job.

My intent was not to go after Rush - I have enormous respect for Rush Limbaugh. I was maybe a little bit inarticulate. ... There was no attempt on my part to diminish his voice or his leadership.

Congress must also enact pro-growth policies that encourage the economy to expand: like making tax relief permanent and repealing the death tax.

Clearly a black man's life is not worth a ham sandwich.

Look, not everybody plays well with each other on the playground. I get that, that's politics.

Why do members of my party constantly go after the president personally?

It's a sadness that has been knocking at my door for a long time, and I finally let it in.

Be content to stand in the light and let the shadow fall where it will.

Intention is the measure for rendering actions true, so that, where intention is sound, action is sound, and where it is corrupt, then action is corrupt

When a band first comes along, they should be confusing and doing something people don't accept. You don't want the first reaction to just be, "Oh, I get that."

Will you join me in hearing the case for keeping weapons from those who preach death to Israel and America?

That's why I write fiction, because I want to write these stories that people will read and find universal.

In India, religious life forms the centre, the keynote of the whole music of national life.

So you're her brother? Says Linn. I guess we know who got the good genes.

The Cha-Cha is no more ridiculous than life itself.

Physical science has taught us to associate Deity with the normal rather than with the abnormal.