What we need to do with respect to the Middle East is strong, steady leadership, not wrong and reckless leadership that is all over the map.

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.

What is failure to a person who is not afraid to learn from it and try again?

In many ways, religion comes from the same place in us that art comes from. The language of the human heart if poetry

If you're unhappy, what is it in your life that you're not facing?

Some of you fellers are getting 'Whiskey Slick.'

It remained an open question, how much sympathy love could stand.

People love to hear the mistakes you've made.

Humility is a virtue all preach, none practice; and yet everybody is content to hear.

Favours out of place I regard as positive injuries.

I've had at least my share of tragedy, but I have had far more than my share of happiness.

The most important thing was that time had passed, pouring thousands of soothing seconds across the island. People need time to deal with the now before it runs away and becomes the then.