This, in my view, is the highest responsibility of the President of the United States, which is to maintain the safety of the American people.

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 have no riches but richer thoughts.

I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money [not for purpose or passion]- has turned himself into a slave.

We are nothing if we walk alone we are everything when we walk together in step with other dignified feet.

All the arts are predominantly national, and therefore the Australian Film Commission should be funding us. The battle gets more and more vicious each year.

When your head tells you one thing and your heart another, listen to your heart. It tells no lies.

Continuous, unflagging effort, persistence and determination will win. Let not the man be discouraged who has these.

I think kids, in general as an audience, are the way forward because they're not sort of sullied by intellectual expectation or this or that. It's a very pure kind of response to the work.

People say many things, but at the end of the day people can say what they want.

The Roman Catholic Church is for saints and sinners alone - for respectable people, the Anglican Church will do.

Luxury, to me, is not owning a lot of stuff. Luxury, to me, is feeling unrushed.