When a man doesn't know the meaning of the word 'fear', that might just be a deficiency in his education.

Big Government is erecting a panopticon state - one that sees everything, and regulates everything. It’s great “customer service,” except that you can never get out of the store.

Big Government is the small option: it's the guarantee of smaller freedom, smaller homes, smaller cars, smaller opportunities, smaller lives.

But, once you get a taste for shutting people up, it's hard to stop. Why bother winning the debate when it's easier to close it down?

The spirit of the age is: Ask not what your country can do for you, demand it.

Question: How much do you have to invest in the future before you've spent it and no longer have one?

LBJ held up Detroit as a model of what the Great Society could accomplish. He was right.

There may be many things wrong with the United States but only a blind fool who hasn't been paying attention for the last twenty years would hold up Europe as the alternative.

Those who can do. Those who can't form a supercommittee.

The Democratic Party is uniquely virulently racist and pro-slavery to a degree unseen anywhere in the English-speaking world!

The long-term cost of a welfare society is the infantilization of the population.

Faith moves mountains, love transforms hearts.

I wonder how much the general population of this country know that the legal system has far more to do with playing a good hand of poker than it does with justice.

The best part of the character and quality of the leader is expressing who you are in the work you do and how you do it.

I always loved the look of musicians. I've always admired them because they have a look - when I was growing up, it seemed that the ones I liked didn't need to have a stylist.

Saying someone is ugly doesn't make you any prettier.

As a general rule, if you want to get at the truth - hear both sides and believe neither.

With a film, you know the beginning, middle and end of your character's arc. But on a TV show, you have no idea where they're going to end up.

I always see America as really belonging to the Native Americans. Even though I'm American, I still feel like a visitor in my own country.

Life's greatest setbacks reveal life's biggest opportunities.

You don’t need to be a completely complete human right now … That’s what makes you human.