This always confuses liberals, that conservatives like the military and don't like the bureaucracy. That's because the military has their guns pointed out and the bureaucracy has them pointed in.

We don't need someone who can think. We need someone with enough digits to hold a pen.

I don't want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub.

We are trying to change the tones in the state capitals, and turn them toward bitter nastiness and partisanship.

My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub.

Obsessions turn people off.

We will make it so that a Democrat cannot govern as a Democrat.

I was an anti-communist before I was political in other ways.

The future of the Republican Party, all the different folks looking to lead the Republican Party at the national level in the future, recognize we should do immigration reform.

Being married is kind of like being a Ken-doll; you don't get to dress yourself anymore.

The goal is to reduce the size and scope of government spending, not to focus on the deficit. The deficit is the symptom of the disease.

It is in the nature of cats to do a certain amount of unescorted roaming.

You screw me, I screw you back. I'm a lady like that.

If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is not love, but a transaction that never fails to lay stress on a plus and a minus.

The safest place to be during an earthquake would be in a stationary store.

Pigeon racing is a lousy, greedy, and often unlawful activity. One thing that it is not is kind to birds.

My whole thing has always been as long as everybody else is going through it, I can go through it as well.

Leopard print has been my thing forever! When I was a teenager my entire room was done in leopard print - it's timeless, chic, and always in style. When in doubt... leopard!

They always say that jazz doesn't sell, but it's a lie, because it does sell, and it sells consistently year in and year out.

Following Christ, the Church seeks the truth, which is not always the same as the majority opinion.

Don’t worry. You may think you’ll never get over it. But you also thought it would last forever.