Frankly, I was born with a silver spoon.

We will strengthen our security by building missile defense, restoring our military might, and standing by and strengthening our intelligence officers.

I like PBS. I love Big Bird ... But I'm not going to keep on spending money on things to borrow money from China to pay for it.

I'm not going to wear rose-colored glasses when it comes to Russia, or Mr. Putin.

I have never once regretted missing a business opportunity so that I could be with my children and grandchildren.

My wife drives a couple of Cadillacs.

I have some friends who are NASCAR team owners.

I am in favor of stem-cell research. I am not in favor of creating new human embryos through cloning.

Isn't it fitting that so many of those who have contempt for the private sector will soon find themselves back in it?

There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what.

I'm not familiar precisely with what I said, but I'll stand by what I said, whatever it was.

It is because I had so much joy that I came to have so much hate.

People who had been treated inhumanly, not given a chance to secure any foot on any ladder - and all the social mores were suddenly abandoned.

Why did human development proceed at such different rates on different continents for the last 13,000 years?

It's difficult to get away from the shadow of a TV character.

The thing you realize as you get older is that parents don't know what the Hell they're doing and neither will you when you get to be a parent

If we were meant to talk more than listen, we would have two mouths and one ear.

I have this whole thing: if you look good, you feel good, and if you feel good, you look good.

And I wonder if there is really any point to what I'm doing, or what I'm supposed to make of a world where a man can get rich playing "let's pretend

Learning by doing is the only way I know how to learn.

God's voice had been reduced to paper, and even that paper had to be moderated and deciphered by the proper authorities and intellect.