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.

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.

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 one of the major tragedies that nothing is more discomforting than the hearty affection of the Old Friends who never were friends.

You'll get into dreadful trouble and it won't be my fault. You are bad people.

To carry on war, three things are necessary: money, money, and yet more money.

To find fulfillment...don't exist with life - embrace it.

There is, I think, humor here which does not translate well from English into sanity.

If you only give back what you get from other people, you're not giving as much as you can.

If you don't see the Internet as an opportunity, it will become a threat. In two or three year's time, the Internet will become as commonplace in the office as the telephone.

The problem is not simply that the Singularity represents the passing of humankind from center stage, but that it contradicts our most deeply held notions of being.

To simply dismiss the concept of God as being unscientific is to violate the very objectivity of science itself.

It is impossible to go as high as you are capable of going, if you are carrying the burden of hate, revenge and bitterness.