Difficult things aren't easy, but they're worth it.

The government is not your salvation. The government is not your road to prosperity. Hard work, education will take you far beyond what any government program can ever promise.

The America I know is great - not because government made it great but because ordinary citizens like me, like my father and like you are given the opportunity every day to do extraordinary things.

Hard work and education will take you farther than any government program can ever promise.

Growing up, I had a front row seat to seeing two people work really hard. My dad scrubbed toilets at a private Catholic school for a while and that was to help me get through school.

I understand people, and I think that my life and my history and what I represent can relate to a lot of the women, the independents, the moderate voters.

Mr. President I am here to tell you we are not buying what you are selling in 2012.

My parents immigrated to the United States with $10 in their pocket and a belief that the America they had heard about really did exist as the land of opportunity.

According to liberals, I'm not supposed to exist. I know that I am going to be a target for the Left. I have something to say to them: 'Game On.'

So the America I came to know growing up was filled with all the excitement and possibilities found in living the American dream.

The Democrats have come right out and said it: the power of the central government shall have no limits at all.

You are worth infinitely more than you could possibly imagine.

Throughout the history of our young nation, we have seen our military go bravely into battle, armed with courage and willing to make the ultimate sacrifice.

I think that baseball as a whole, I am a huge romantic when it comes to the history and the stats and the numbers the stories behind it, so I would consider myself a pretty big fan.

The prison life of the past looks in our own time like liberation itself.

Most anthropologists are doing straightforward ethnography, and should

I am going to leave the future of Europe to the Europeans.

I drink alone. Yeah, with nobody else. You know when I drink alone, I prefer to be by myself.

Our house was awash in books, and my mother doled out her favorites like they were special treats - which they were.

I have toyed with the idea of playing it straight. But, like I say, I really believe we are all out of our minds at some level.

We all go a little mad sometimes.