When government is... bailing out banks... we have every good reason to be alarmed.

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.

If the knock once and door remain lock, do not turn away. With persistent knocks, the door will be open.

I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope self.

People were a little leery when I was doing the press for my last album 'Rumble Doll, ' yes. It's always that thing that this is a dilettante or a pet project.

All doctrine is ultimately the death of joy - even when the doctrine is the elevation of the light above the serious, because joy is too varied and elusive ever to confine itself to one or the other.

If you're a Christian, Jew or Muslim, you're equally an American. That's the great thing about America, is the right to worship the way you see fit.

Government itself at length must fall To nature's state, where all have right to all.

I wanted it to be kind of dreamy and 1920s, when everything is soft-focus.

I had learned that there were times when fighting was impossible, when the best thing to do was to wait and to learn.

We can say with certainty - or 90% probability - that the new industries that are about to be born will have nothing to do with information.

The heart holds answers the brain refuses to see.