This feels good being back in Michigan. You know, the trees are the right height.

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.

I haven't been wrong since 1961, when I thought I made a mistake.

To find a prince, you gotta kiss some toads.

... good teachers, like Tolstoy's happy families, are alike everywhere.

When we think we’re at the mercy of our circumstances and past, we discount the power that is ours through the Holy Spirit.

I tend to be a subscriber to the idea that you have everything you need by the time you're 12 years old to do interesting writing for most of the rest of your life - certainly by the time you're 18.

I give myself a pep talk and visualize the routine. I tell myself: "I can do this, let's go!"

Once we got going on the Fantagraphics version of Love and Rockets, our encouragement was constant. People wanted us to do more, do more. Thirty years later, here we are.

In marketing, the familiar is everything.

We're going to bring back God and the Bible and drive the gods of secular humanism right out of the public schools of America.

The commonest fallacy among women is that simply having children makes them a mother - which is as absurd as believing that having a piano makes one a musician.