I am not for raising taxes in a recession, especially when it comes to job creators that we need so desperately to start creating jobs again.

People have to take responsibility for themselves. We need to get the housing industry going again. We don't need government intervening in every step.

We will cut programs, we will try to rein in the size of the bureaucracy. We will bring federal pay scales that have become so exaggerated into line with market rates.

We know that appropriators will fight these cutbacks. But by eliminating earmarks, we can stop the horse trading that grows agency budgets.

I do not suspect that Jefferson or Madison ever envisioned Congress honoring the 2,560th anniversary of the birth of Confucius or supporting the designation of National Pi Day.

I mean, look, Nancy Pelosi said in the very beginning this is going to be the most open, honest and ethical Congress in history. And what we're seeing is she's breaking that promise every day.

I want what I want when I want it.

What the president announced yesterday, is that somehow magically, if we just continue to prime the pump of taxpayer dollars, we're going to see magically an economic recovery.

In a perfect world we would bring corporate tax rates down to 25% or less so we can get competitive in the world economy. Ultimately, I would love to see a flat tax.

I am hopeful for the American people that we can actually improve the outlook for bringing down costs in health care.

The issue for us is rebuilding a governing majority that is comfortable with differences that can transcend the divisiveness and unify behind the principles that we know our party has succeeded on.

Life in Britain had seemed like one long antechamber to a room that had too many barriers to entry

We can't solve today's problems with the mentality that created them.

Don't get discouraged because there's a lot of mechanical work to writing. I rewrote the first part of Farewell to Arms at least fifty times.

I couldn't ask for a better life.

Family is supposed to be our safe haven. Very often, it's the place where we find the deepest heartache.

I feel like, like, how you matter is defined by the things that matter to you. You matter as much as the things that matter to you.

Believe that there is a purpose in your pain.

All this stuff is kind of surreal to me - Ididn't think I'd be in the league or none of that. It was making it to college. That's about it.

Stock prices turn people's heads. When prices are high, we treat a company like gods, and if they drop, we treat them as fools.

If you want sympathy, look for a friend, but if you want honesty, an enemy might be the best friend you ever had.