The tax code is 10 times the size of the Bible with none of the good news.

Exploiting people's emotions of fear, envy and anxiety is not hope, it's not change, it's partisanship. We don't need partisanship. We don't need demagoguery, we need solutions.

We don’t want to turn the safety net into a hammock that lulls able-bodied people to lives of dependency and complacency...

Big-government economics breeds crony capitalism. It's corrupt, anything but neutral, and a barrier to broad participation in prosperity.

A free economy and strong communities honor the dignity of every person, rewarding effort with justice, promoting upward mobility, and building solidarity among citizens.

Mr. Vice President, I know you're under a lot of duress to make up for lost ground, but I think people would be better served if we don't keep interrupting each other.

If somebody is going to try to paste a person's view on epistemology to me, then give me Thomas Aquinas. Don't give me Ayn Rand.

And to this day, my Mom is my role model.

Every successful individual knows that his or her achievement depends on a community of persons working together.

We will not spend four years blaming others, we will take responsibility.

We need to stop spending money we don't have.

We make messes of our lives, but every now and then, we manage to do something that's exactly right. The challenge is figuring out which is which.

It's been six months since I took a bite of that shiny, forbidden apple, and I've never been the same.

The penalty of success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you.

I wanted to paint nothing. I was looking for something that was the essence of nothing, and the soup can was it.

Have you ever tried to split sawdust?

Every aspect of our lives are now connected: health, travel, sports, gaming, our homes, our cars - everything.

The human mind, in taking us down the path of technocracy, has become the adversary of life itself and collaterally the adversary of the human soul.

I was too broke to buy a guitar so I more borrowed guitars from friends.

Nothing so casts down the manly mind from it's height as the fondling of women and those bodily contacts which belong to the married state.

Distorting attacks when people already don't trust you is not smart.