We still believe in the America that is a land of opportunity and a beacon of freedom. We believe in the America that challenges each of us to be better and bigger than ourselves.

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.

Long hair will send you to hell!

It was a miracle to me, this transformation of my acorns into an oak.

But after the time there I'd had it with fashion again, so I left to go to architecture school in a summer course at Harvard, which didn't last very long.

An artist, in my understanding of the word, should side with the people against the Emperor that oppresses his or her people.

When you spend your whole life traveling it does get really tedious and exhausting.

God's delay's are not His denials

Speech is as a pump, by which we raise and pour out the water from the great lake of Thought,--whither it flows back again.

Inside every adult male is a denied little boy.

The ego's phenomenal existence is transcended when you dive into the source from where the 'I'-thought rises

North Carolina, particularly the 8th District, has long played a key role in our Nation's military forces.