This country already has a leader who divides us with the bitter politics of envy. We have to offer an alternative vision.

We will strengthen our security by building missile defense, restoring our military might, and standing by and strengthening our intelligence officers.

I like PBS. I love Big Bird ... But I'm not going to keep on spending money on things to borrow money from China to pay for it.

I'm not going to wear rose-colored glasses when it comes to Russia, or Mr. Putin.

I have never once regretted missing a business opportunity so that I could be with my children and grandchildren.

My wife drives a couple of Cadillacs.

I have some friends who are NASCAR team owners.

I am in favor of stem-cell research. I am not in favor of creating new human embryos through cloning.

Isn't it fitting that so many of those who have contempt for the private sector will soon find themselves back in it?

There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what.

I'm not familiar precisely with what I said, but I'll stand by what I said, whatever it was.

We have 200, 000 kids a year who drop out of the French school system and have no hope. They become a drag on society.

I am nice to everybody. But people really take advantage of it.

If somebody gives me his hand, I will not look at him with suspicion.

I think there is limits to the assumption that wherever you are, the situation in a way tells you how to behave.

There is hook in every benefit, that sticks in his jaws that takes that benefit, and draws him whither the benefactor will.

When I feel connected, mind-body and spirit, I feel centered.

Whatever we can’t hold, we hang on a hook that will hold it.

You can never be comfortable with your success, you've got to be paranoid you're going to lose it.

People are messy; therefore, relationships will be messy. Don't be surprised by messiness.