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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Every time I opened my mouth, flame licked up my throat. I could have razed vil­lages, kid­napped princesses.

Logic takes care of itself

I would never have done what I'd done if I'd considered my father as somebody I wanted to please.

Public office is the last refuge of the scoundrel.

No one nor anything can silence me.

We're too insignificant and small to really be able to do anything, except cry, not unhappily, but an inner cry, a feeling of reaching to God.

Nicotine and alcohol embraced in my system like long-parted siblings, grateful to me for reuniting them.

Mental alertness is not awareness. Mental alertness only enhances your survival instincts. It does not take you towards liberation.

It's a luxury being able to work every day in the streets of Manhattan. It doesn't get much cooler than that. When you move to New York, that's exactly what you dream of. And I'm doing it.

The first author of speech was God himself, that instructed Adam how to name such creatures as He presented to his sight.