What you believe, what you value, how you live - matters.

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.

To come to nothing through something is the way to outside from both sides.

You are a special being

Any chance to get out and play live for some people and get out of the studio is nice.

I wrote 'Reaching for the Moon' because I wanted to tell kids that all of us have a moon, a dream, that we can strive for. Even if you don't attain it, you can at least reach for it.

America is the new Roman Empire. Remember what happened to Rome.

Before Jem looks at anyone else he looks at me, and I’ve tried to live so I can look squarely back at him.

Ambition's cradle oftenest is its grave

I was disappointed in how [Bill] Clinton, like [Jimmy] Carter, used the founders to argue for huge expansions in federal power, clearly beyond what the founders could have ever conceived.

Imagining what you want as if it already exists opens the door to letting it happen.

I envy thee not thy faith, which is ever in thy mouth but never in thy heart nor in thy practice