We'll always have bureaucracies, but bureaucracies led by bureaucrats might be too much of a bad thing.

It worries me about our unwillingness to really address reforms and modernization in Medicare. This thing was designed 37 years ago. It has not evolved to keep pace with current medical technology.

Don't let that weapon technology proliferate. Don't let Saddam Hussein get capability for nuclear or chemical weapons, because he's already shown a willingness to use any weapon at his disposal.

Let individuals create real wealth, empower them, create something that they can leave for their children.

Bureaucrats behave very differently than a private-sector manager because their motivations are different. Permanent bureaucrats, no matter how senior, worry about their next job.

People in New Hampshire know that I'll talk thoughtfully, substantively about any issue.

The American formula for creating business is not to have the government create business.

It's good to give seniors more choices and more options, let them choose a plan that's best for them and target assistance to the lowest income people.

If you wait until those weapons pose a direct, clear, present danger to the United States, you've probably waited too long.

Nothing panics politicians like $4 a gallon gas.

Simply put, broadband voice is an interstate matter that must be dealt with through clear national standards.

Silence is not the absence of sound, but the absence of self.

Collectivism requires self-sacrifice, the subordination of one's interests to those of others.

I would like to be the first ambassador to the United States from the United States.

One good man, one good man, it ain't much - it's only everything.

'True Blood' excites me. It scares me, but it excites me.

Acting is illusion, as much illusion as magic is - and not so much a matter of being real.

Music is my first love.

Mathematics is like draughts in being suitable for the young, not too difficult, amusing, and without peril to the state.

If you live in the past and allow the past to define who you are, then you never grow.

Last, but not least, avoid cliches like the plague.