We have to honor our commitments to today's beneficiaries, but we can't solve the growing deficit and debt problems unless we are smart, courageous, and sensible in planning for future.

If we can return to a government that the Founders, in their wisdom, envisioned for us, we can return to a government that will allow our economy to thrive again, and our people to live in liberty.

I like going to rifle and pistol clubs and joining them in target shooting. I also share the same respect for individual initiative and love of family.

We need to do things better, but in a way that makes sense.

Doctors cannot afford to provide care at the rate of reimbursement that Medicare insists that they accept.

If only we studied the stars as much as we study our own reflections.

I think with any characterization there's a point where you empathize, no matter how much of a deviance his or her actions may be from your understanding of humanity.

Ask who wants to live to be a hundred, and the answer is the person who is ninety-nine.

In the nights sometimes now he'd wake in the back and freezing waste out of softly colored worlds of human love, the songs of birds, the sun.

Nobody has asked me if I support [Paul] Ryan.

By this act the president alone is empowered to make the law, to fix in his mind what acts, words, what thoughts or looks, shall constitute such a crime.

I have, as you know, the utmost respect for President Obama as a person.

I confess I've never felt like a passenger.

I didn't have time to sit down and look at the work of a year and choose what to type.