The welfare state is an assault on families.

A woman who demands further gun control legislation is like a chicken who roots for Colonel Sanders.

Conservatives consider liberals well-intentioned, but misguided. Liberals consider conservatives not only wrong, but really, really bad people.

People value and spend their money more wisely when they acquire it by their own efforts - also known as work.

Lower taxes, less government spending on domestic programs and fewer regulations mean a better economy for everybody.

Welfare distorts behavior, makes one less personally responsible and reduces the role of private charity. This principle applies to corporate welfare.

Rent-control laws disproportionately benefit the non-poor because the elite pull strings, work the system and are better connected than the non-poor.

In the last 1,000 years, the Arabs have translated as many books as Spain translates in just one year.

The No. 1 cause of preventable death for young black men is not auto accidents or accidental drowning, but homicide.

The formula for achieving middle-class success is simple: Finish high school; don't have a child before the age of 20; and get married before having the child.

Studies show that children of divorced parents can have outcomes as positive as those coming from intact homes, provided the father remains financially supportive and active in his children's lives.

In times of stress, the best thing we can do for each other is to listen with our ears and our hearts and to be assured that our questions are just as important as our answers.

I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you the strength to do the right thing and behave the right way and overcome the mind.

My morning starts with some form of exercise, and I give two hours - from 5:30 to 7:30 A.M. - to my personal fitness.

No one has as much luck around the greens as one who practices a lot.

Oppressors do not get to be oppressors in a single sweep. They manage it because little by little, we make them that. We overlook too much in the beginning and wonder why we lost control in the end.

A dream does not die on its own. A dream is vanquished by the choices ordinary people make about real things in their own lives.

I became convinced that knowing lots of people was kind of skill, something that the diligent can overcome.

You're brave. You are the bravest person I know, and you are my friend. I don't care if you are imaginary.

I've always written for actors, and if you want to write for good actors, you have to write parts that are surprising, that are human, and that allow them to go to a wide range of places.

As a kid I was goofy and creative and sensitive. I like to think I'm all of those now too - just with wrinkles.