We need a dramatically expanded use of statecraft.

One morning, just like 9/11, there's going to be a disaster. I have yet to see the United Nations do anything effective with either Iran or North Korea.

The idea that a congressman would be tainted by accepting money from private industry or private sources is essentially a socialist argument.

Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.

All unemployment compensation should be tied to a job training requirement. Now the fact is, 99 weeks is an associate degree.

President Obama has created at least three jobs that I know of - Bob McDonnell, Chris Christie, and Scott Brown.

It may just be because I get homesick, but I have concluded Washington's cherry blossoms are just plain overrated.

I don't see how the party that says it's the party of the family is going to adopt an immigration policy which destroys families that have been here a quarter century.

I'm not a natural leader. I'm too intellectual; I'm too abstract; I think too much.

If Thomas Edison invented electric light today, Dan Rather would report it on CBS News as, 'Candle-making industry threatened'.

The most important social welfare program in America is a job.

The answers to all problems or issues is hidden in a question.

Hope. It is the quintessential human delusion, simultaneously the source of your greatest strength, and greatest weakness.

I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.

Every great film should seem new every time you see it.

Successful people breed success.

Opportunities will be available to you that you cannot imagine.

And I really do think that the difficulty of research makes it more real to you than punching a thing to find out how many men were killed at this particular action.

People like me prove that you can survive without romance, even though you end up a bit unbalanced and you tend to argue with your own reflection.

I resent the limitations of my own imagination.

I didn't really like jazz that much and was unhappy in that genre. It was what I was doing just to get by and pay rent.