As Republicans, our first concern is for those waiting tonight to begin or resume the climb up life's ladder.

Our morbidly obese federal government needs not just behavior modification but bariatric surgery.

No feature of the Obama presidency has been sadder than its constant efforts to divide us, to curry favor with some Americans by castigating others.

Our main task is not to see that people of great wealth add to it, but that those without much money have a greater chance to earn some.

I refer to the debt - the new red menace. This time consisting of ink.

The perverse presumption that places the burden of proof on the challenger of spending must be inverted, back to the rule that applies elsewhere in life: 'Prove to me why we should.

Our first thought is always for those on life's first rung, and how we might increase their chances of climbing.

We are taking challenges and turning them into opportunities by developing homegrown, local energy production to become independent from foreign sources.

The public is increasingly disgusted with a steady diet of defamation, and prepared to reward those who refrain from it.

We see government's mission as fostering and enabling the important realms - our businesses, service clubs, Little Leagues, churches - to flourish.

If freedom's best friends cannot unify around a realistic, actionable program of fundamental change, one that attracts and persuades a broad majority of our fellow citizens, big change will not come

Your brothers are the foolish ones for not seeing the strength in beautiful things.

The present is the closest that you will ever get to the future.

Give all to love obey thy heart.

I believe that democracies do not go to war; that's the lesson of history, and I think that a democratic Pakistan is the world community's best guarantee of stability in Asia.

There exists no politician in India daring enough to attempt to explain to the masses that cows can be eaten.

The best philanthropy is constantly in search of the finalities-a search for a cause, an attempt to cure evils at their source.

If mankind were only just what they pretend to be, the problem of the millennium would be immediately solved.

The penalty that good men pay for not being interested in politics is to be governed by men worse than themselves.

Once the festival achieved a certain level of notoriety, then people began to come here with agendas that were not the same as ours. We can't do anything about that. We can't control that.

How many threadbare souls are to be found under silken cloaks and gowns!