We've got to strengthen our military long-term. We don't know what the world is going to throw at us down the road.

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.

A minister's (cabinet member's) function was not to DO the work but to see that it got done.

It is not so much the kind of person a man is as the kind of situation in which he finds himself that determines how he will act.

The mouth tastes food, the heart tastes words.

I've realized that, sometimes, you have to let people go. But I'm really glad I have someone to hold on to.

If the patient has been to more than four physicians, nutrition is probably the medical answer.

The constancy of the wise is only the talent of concealing the agitation of their hearts.

Objects of charity are not guests.

I used to get the girl; now I get the part. In 'The Quiet American' you may have noticed I got the part and the girl. It's a milestone for me, because it's the last time I'm going to get the girl.

To state a lie firmly, categorically and with great authority, undeterred by the fact that all concerned know it to be a lie, is one of the principal activities defined by the term practising law.

Understand the "Gretzky Factor": Cultivate an instinct, a "touch", call it what you will, that enables you to know both where the "puck" is now and where it will be soon.