We must remember, elections are short-term efforts. Revolutions are long-term projects.

Truth is treason in the empire of lies.

Foreign aid is taking money from the poor people of a rich country and giving it to the rich people of a poor country.

One thing is clear: The Founding Fathers never intended a nation where citizens would pay nearly half of everything they earn to the government.

During the last campaign I knew what was happening. You know, they mocked me for my foreign policy and they laughed at my monetary policy. No more. No more.

I lean toward a flat tax. But I want to make it real flat, like ZERO.

I am convinced that there are more threats to American liberty within the 10-mile radius of my office on Capitol Hill than there are on the rest of the globe.

Our Constitution, which was intended to limit government power and abuse, has failed.

It is no coincidence that the century of total war coincided with the century of central banking.

We don't have the freedom of speech to talk about the weather. We have the first amendment so we can say some very controversial things.

In a free society, we are supposed to know the truth. In a society where truth becomes treason, we are in big trouble.

As the sun shines I will make hayTo keep failure at bayFor there remaineth a payFor my honest toil each day.

Thoughts are meant to be words and words are meant to be written and what is written becomes a figment of the literature

All you really have in the end are your stories.

We owe our success to them, and also to the fact that, as the saying goes, two "Eds" are better than one.

I'm not trying to plant the seed that I'm the most fashionable NBA guy - of course, I think that in my own mind.

America has not led but fled on the issue of global warming.

A man, in his books, may be said to walk the earth a long time after he is gone.

[Wynton] Marsalis does not aspire to be an innovator, no one else is allowed to have new ideas either.

Work not of enthusiasm but of love, conscious of duty-which means self-denial.

The towels were so thick there I could hardly close my suitcase.