We believe very strongly that you stop that denial of coverage by promoting choice. Let people make the decisions.

People have to take responsibility for themselves. We need to get the housing industry going again. We don't need government intervening in every step.

We will cut programs, we will try to rein in the size of the bureaucracy. We will bring federal pay scales that have become so exaggerated into line with market rates.

We know that appropriators will fight these cutbacks. But by eliminating earmarks, we can stop the horse trading that grows agency budgets.

I do not suspect that Jefferson or Madison ever envisioned Congress honoring the 2,560th anniversary of the birth of Confucius or supporting the designation of National Pi Day.

I mean, look, Nancy Pelosi said in the very beginning this is going to be the most open, honest and ethical Congress in history. And what we're seeing is she's breaking that promise every day.

I want what I want when I want it.

What the president announced yesterday, is that somehow magically, if we just continue to prime the pump of taxpayer dollars, we're going to see magically an economic recovery.

In a perfect world we would bring corporate tax rates down to 25% or less so we can get competitive in the world economy. Ultimately, I would love to see a flat tax.

I am hopeful for the American people that we can actually improve the outlook for bringing down costs in health care.

The issue for us is rebuilding a governing majority that is comfortable with differences that can transcend the divisiveness and unify behind the principles that we know our party has succeeded on.

He who doesn’t want to face his or her challenges shall always face challenges!

Our small group is committed to getting the biblical text under our skin.

It's a hard thing to risk what you know and are sure of, just for the possibility of something better. Even when it's a pretty strong possibility, and something that's a whole lot better.

I have just returned from the dubbing studio where I spoke into a microphone as Severus Snape for absolutely the last time.

Just learning that you have MS is such a devastating shock.

As a fanboy myself, one of the fun things about the gig has been every time I get a new script, I get to find out more about his day - to-day life and what goes on and what his relationships are.

A women could never be President. A condidate must be over 35, and where are you going to find a woman who will admit she's over 35?

There is no mind so weak and powerless as not to have its inclinations, and none so guarded as to be without its prepossessions.

Decide that no matter what is happening around you, the sun will always be shining in your world.

Our most important problems cannot be solved; they must be outgrown.