What I'd like to do is be able to work with Democrats to reform current entitlement programs for future generations, grandfathering all the grandparents.

We should not be borrowing money from the Chinese to bail out the Greeks. What's coming next? Intergalactic bailouts?

Millions of Americans are struggling to pay their mortgages. They have a right to know whether members of Congress receive sweetheart deals in order to pay for theirs.

I'm not pro-business. I'm pro-free enterprise.

In many respects, I guess I would say I was into Tea Party before there was a Tea Party.

The deficit is the symptom, but spending is the disease.

Listen, if the people in my district wanted to live in France, they'd move to France.

I'm one of the top 2 or 3 or 4 most conservative members in the House of Representatives when it comes to economics.

If you wish for pearls, pray always.

Sometimes power is all a person has, so they will protect it even unto their own destruction, for without power they have nothing.

What makes the production of my work so expensive? The whole installation thing - the construction, the objects, the technology. It really adds up.

If everybody's not a beauty, then nobody is

There is a difference between twenty-nine and thirty. When you are twenty-nine it can be the beginning of everything. When you are thirty it can be the end of everything.

A poet is a musician who can't sing.

I sometimes wonder if our memories are a myth. We think we remember, but we are remembering the story and not the actual event?

To be manager of the Yankees under the malevolent dictatorship of George Steinbrenner is like being married to Zsa Zsa Gabor - the union is short and sweet.

What I'm hoping to do and what I think I will do is make an entertaining enjoyable show where the whole family can sit down and watch.

It's the anarchy of poverty delights me, the old yellow wooden house indented among the new brick tenements