I understand that it is a maxim of law, that a poor plea may be a good plea to a bad declaration.

I will prepare, and someday my chance will come.

Whatever you are, be a good one.

No man is poor who has a Godly mother.

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.

I am grateful to the Lord for blessing my path as a writer.

If you know the correct path then lost people are your responsibility.

Strong women, that's who I really respect.

As a governor, I am naturally inclined to focus on the domestic side of protecting the United States.

New York State is upside down and backwards; high taxes and low performance.

No man can possibly be benevolent or religious, to the full extent of his obligations, without concerning himself, to a greater or less extent, with the affairs of human government.

Even though I wanted to be John Malkovich or Sean Penn when I was a kid, mostly I was a music nerd.

Try your best to treat others as you would wish to be treated yourself, and you will find that this is the shortest way to benevolence

I have written occasionally on links between my scientific work and political thinking, but not much, because the links seem to me abstract and speculative.

Comedy is tragedy revisited or hostility. It is mock hostility, of course, or it would be ugly; we would have a war.