You have to be willing to have the decision-making follow the data.

I want you to take a good, hard look at me, America, because this is exactly what you’ve got coming.

It took Jimmy Carter to give us Ronald Reagan.

Always be sexy. I salute that message.

Liberty is never safer than when politicans are terrified.

Climate change is the perfect pseudoscientific theory for a big government politician who wants more power. Why? Because it is a theory that can never be disproven.

Every candidate is going to come to you and say they are the most conservative person that ever lived.

I'm a maniac, and everyone on this stage is stupid, fat and ugly. And Ben [Carson] you're a terrible surgeon.

The essence of the conservative message should be we want a dynamic nation where anybody with nothing can achieve anything.

I've spent the past month in Washington D.C. and it is terrific to be back in America.

The last 15 years, there has been no recorded warming. Contrary to all the theories that they are expounding, there should have been warming over the last 15 years. It hasn't happened.

Awards are merely the badges of mediocrity.

I don't worry about how accurately I convey my personality. I learned early on that it's almost impossible to accurately portray yourself.

It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable.

Take a cat, nourish it well with milk and tender meat, make it a couch of silk.

When I'm taking pictures I even forget that I have a camera. When I shoot I forget about everything. Light comes, death comes, people go in and out in costume - and it's like a play.

For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.

Just write a little bit every day. Even if it's for only half an hour — write, write, write.

At the core of all anger is a need that is not being fulfilled.

Let the music diffuse all the tension.

I would worry if people always associated me with Larry Sokolov.