What the president announced yesterday, is that somehow magically, if we just continue to prime the pump of taxpayer dollars, we're going to see magically an economic recovery.

People have to take responsibility for themselves. We need to get the housing industry going again. We don't need government intervening in every step.

We will cut programs, we will try to rein in the size of the bureaucracy. We will bring federal pay scales that have become so exaggerated into line with market rates.

We know that appropriators will fight these cutbacks. But by eliminating earmarks, we can stop the horse trading that grows agency budgets.

I do not suspect that Jefferson or Madison ever envisioned Congress honoring the 2,560th anniversary of the birth of Confucius or supporting the designation of National Pi Day.

I mean, look, Nancy Pelosi said in the very beginning this is going to be the most open, honest and ethical Congress in history. And what we're seeing is she's breaking that promise every day.

I want what I want when I want it.

In a perfect world we would bring corporate tax rates down to 25% or less so we can get competitive in the world economy. Ultimately, I would love to see a flat tax.

I am hopeful for the American people that we can actually improve the outlook for bringing down costs in health care.

The issue for us is rebuilding a governing majority that is comfortable with differences that can transcend the divisiveness and unify behind the principles that we know our party has succeeded on.

You know, we have a fiscal train wreck before us. And unless we act, and act deliberately, we're not going to enable our kids to have what we have. It's plain and simple as that.

When the sun sleeps, the darkness awakens! When the shepherd disappears, the wolf appears on the horizon!

Everything about us was entirely normal, really. We were as ordinary as anything we might come across in this world.

It is bad for a young man to sin; but it is worse for an old man to sin.

Photography is a strong tool, a propaganda device, and a weapon for the defense of the environment...and therefore for the fostering of a healthy human race and even very likely for its survival.

Among American citizens, there should be no forgotten men and no forgotten races.

Research is the search of people who don't know what they want.

My autobiography is one of the truest, most frankly written books ever published in the western hemisphere.

An army is strengthened by labor and enervated by idleness.

If we were interested in making money, we wouldn't have become teachers.

Cultivate a sweet temper and the sweet speech which is its natural consequence.