We have a long-standing tradition in this country to follow the advice of Senator Vandenberg, which is that politics ends at the water's edge.

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.

The great thing about falling apart, is that you get to decide how to put yourself back together. Make good choices.

Matthew had won this battle—a battle in a war marked no more by yards on an open field, but by scars unseen.

Being called very, very difficult is the beginning of success. Until you're called very, very difficult you're really nobody at all.

Why haven't you achieved your goals yet? What are your favorite excuses, and how do they hold you back?

There's no job too immense, when you got confidence.

We must give up all that we are in order to possess all that He is.

What we understand to be profoundness, or importance, it changes. It should change. It should be this moment where you cannot believe that equalled grandness or importance.

It really is the most poetic thing I know about physics: you are all stardust.

The creature called man has a strange history. He is not of one piece, nor was he born of a single moment in time. His elementary substance is stardust almost as old as the universe.

An opportunity was being given to me to do what I had asked of others.