The single biggest surprise about arriving to the Senate is the defeatist attitude here.

I want you to take a good, hard look at me, America, because this is exactly what you’ve got coming.

It took Jimmy Carter to give us Ronald Reagan.

Always be sexy. I salute that message.

Liberty is never safer than when politicans are terrified.

Climate change is the perfect pseudoscientific theory for a big government politician who wants more power. Why? Because it is a theory that can never be disproven.

Every candidate is going to come to you and say they are the most conservative person that ever lived.

I'm a maniac, and everyone on this stage is stupid, fat and ugly. And Ben [Carson] you're a terrible surgeon.

The essence of the conservative message should be we want a dynamic nation where anybody with nothing can achieve anything.

I've spent the past month in Washington D.C. and it is terrific to be back in America.

The last 15 years, there has been no recorded warming. Contrary to all the theories that they are expounding, there should have been warming over the last 15 years. It hasn't happened.

Anything, anything to stop drowning in this dull, trivial and cowardly existence.

Your sensitivity, your tenderness, your eyes make me pick up my pen and write, Mrignayni!

Sleep; and if life was bitter to thee, pardon, If sweet, give thanks; thou hast no more to live; And to give thanks is good, and to forgive.

A good man will certainly also possess courage; but a brave man is not necessarily good.

Also, I used to think that one day I might get someone to iron my shirts, but the truth is I really like doing them myself.

Nose-to-tail eating is not a bloodlust, testosterone-fueled offal hunt. It's common sense, and it's all good stuff.

The essential thing is to WANT to sing. This then is a song. I am singing.

In L.A. summer's blistering heat, I've seen many girls wearing short skirts with Ugg boots. I like the boots, and the short skirts, but I've always wondered, don't their feet get hot?

I never heard the gospel of Jesus Christ. I had never attended church, was never raised in a religious home, never had any insight of God or who he was until I was 18 years old.

I often joke that I straddle psychosis and neurosis, and that being an artist keeps me in the middle, so I can work between the two.