The zeitgeist is for cutting spending and balancing the budget. But I do not want the Republican Party to be perceived as putting the budget ahead of people, jobs and education.

Winning is like shaving - you do it every day or you wind up looking like a bum.

Conservatives define compassion not by the number of people who recieve some kind of government aid but rather by the number of people who no longer need it.

The power of one man or one woman doing the right thing for the right reason, and at the right time, is the greatest influence in our society.

There's no limit to what free men and free women in a free market with free enterprise can accomplish when people are free to follow their dream.

When people lack jobs, opportunity, and ownership of property they have little or no stake in their communities.

There are no limits to our future if we don't put limits on our people.

He'll call that trickle-down. I call it Niagara Falls.

The only way to oppose a bad idea is to replace it with a good idea.

If we are to change America, we must change the United States Congress.

Economic growth doesn't mean anything if it leaves people out.

A man must be prepared to face life, as well as death, there's no escape from either.

Timmy, who made a daring escape, also made a mistake of paying the taxi driver with a check made out of toilet paper.

My main concern is making the connection with my listeners and making records that the whole world can sing. That's what makes me happy.

The world can only be redeemed through action--movement--motion. Uncoerced, unbribed, and unbought, humanity will move toward the light.

A man who has depths in his shame meets his destiny and his delicate decisions upon paths which few ever reach . . .

[L]ife ceases to be a fraction and becomes an integer.

A great artist has a unique vision...obsession. They are someone willing to fail flamboyantly.

The will is a product of integrity, not a child of contradictions.

Too much reality can be a dazzle, a surfeit;Too close immediacy an exhaustion

We cannot comprehend what comprehends us.