When the penalty for a policeman's mistake is to put a criminal back out on the street, then we are hurting America; we are hurting our law-abiding citizens.

As long as there's land available, single-family homes will be built, and Colorado residents will always go for a single-family over a condo.

I consider the Chinese government's policy among the most intelligent in the world.

As President, I will end once and for all the use of taxpayer funds to promote the National Endowment for the Arts and other programs that subsidize amoral and degrading activities.

There's a lot of people out now around America who depend on checks from their fellow taxpayers being in the mailbox every day.

I think it would be bizarre to pick somebody to speak at the convention based on their sexual preference, because once you go down that road, why don't you pick a transvestite?

I would prefer every [American] state keep the definition of marriage that's prevailed in Western civilization for a couple thousand years.

In the continuing debate over the morality of enhanced interrogation, an essential consideration is often overlooked: intent.

I'm pro-death penalty, but what I have not seen is anybody that would mock someone on death row.

All the culture war issues will be settled by the court.

When people move from poor countries to America, they quickly adapt in at least one way - their consumption habits.

A strength is a lot like oxygen. We don't really pay much attention to it - unless it's missing.

We are going to the moon that is not very far. Man has so much farther to go within himself.

Where there are humans, You'll find flies, And Buddhas.

No matter how rich a person is, his resources are limited.

I'm not impressed by someone's degree... I'm impressed by them making movies.

Transparency is the new objectivity.

I don't see the point of pretending we're clones.

the average man does not want to be free. he simply wants to be safe.

... the Athenian lawmaker Solon decreed it a crime for any citizen to shrink from controversy.

When I audition for something, I don't even want to think about who the other actors are in it, who's directing it.