Centralized health dictatorship.

One morning, just like 9/11, there's going to be a disaster. I have yet to see the United Nations do anything effective with either Iran or North Korea.

The idea that a congressman would be tainted by accepting money from private industry or private sources is essentially a socialist argument.

Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.

All unemployment compensation should be tied to a job training requirement. Now the fact is, 99 weeks is an associate degree.

President Obama has created at least three jobs that I know of - Bob McDonnell, Chris Christie, and Scott Brown.

It may just be because I get homesick, but I have concluded Washington's cherry blossoms are just plain overrated.

I don't see how the party that says it's the party of the family is going to adopt an immigration policy which destroys families that have been here a quarter century.

I'm not a natural leader. I'm too intellectual; I'm too abstract; I think too much.

If Thomas Edison invented electric light today, Dan Rather would report it on CBS News as, 'Candle-making industry threatened'.

The most important social welfare program in America is a job.

The words of men cannot be trusted, especially men like you!

There is clearly a constituency that appreciates the message that Google is sending, that it finds the Chinese government's attitude to the Internet and censorship unacceptable.

I love the fact publishers are still publishing unprofitable material. It's a challenge to the powers that be. It's saying there is a real literature in this country and we will keep publishing it.

There are no evil thoughts except one; the refusal to think.

A dozen press agents working overtime can do terrible things to the human spirit.

Mysticism is the study of power, its use, and its abuse. At every moment you are getting stronger or you are growing weaker. At every moment your attention field is increasing or decreasing.

Those who have ever valued liberty for its own sake believed that to be free to choose, and not to be chosen for, is an inalienable ingredient in what makes human beings human.

Any time you're making a movie, all you want to do is reduce the variables of things that could possibly go wrong. I think that's why we work with the same people over and over again.

Whenever you fall, pick something up.

For me, it is good to be vulnerable. It makes me nice... weak sometimes, but in a good way, not a tragic way.