I want more rules, more scrutiny, and to defend the country.

I want you to take a good, hard look at me, America, because this is exactly what you’ve got coming.

It took Jimmy Carter to give us Ronald Reagan.

Always be sexy. I salute that message.

Liberty is never safer than when politicans are terrified.

Climate change is the perfect pseudoscientific theory for a big government politician who wants more power. Why? Because it is a theory that can never be disproven.

Every candidate is going to come to you and say they are the most conservative person that ever lived.

I'm a maniac, and everyone on this stage is stupid, fat and ugly. And Ben [Carson] you're a terrible surgeon.

The essence of the conservative message should be we want a dynamic nation where anybody with nothing can achieve anything.

I've spent the past month in Washington D.C. and it is terrific to be back in America.

The last 15 years, there has been no recorded warming. Contrary to all the theories that they are expounding, there should have been warming over the last 15 years. It hasn't happened.

I was on the point of breaking off the conversation, for nothing puts me so completely out of patience as the utterance of a wretched commonplace when I am talking from my inmost heart.

Happiness is not a horse you cannot harness it.

Vitality shows not only in the ability to persist but in the ability to start over.

No, I was never one of those positive people who believes he can have whatever he sets his sights on. I just kept working at it.

I was the vampire Lestat again. I was back in action. New Orleans was once again my hunting ground.

Some records with drum machines on them sound phony and plastic. It all depends on how you use the tools.

I'm pretty calculating. I take stuff that I know appeals to people's bad sides and match it up with stuff that appeals to their good sides.

The wisdom of a lonely tree is higher than the wisdom of the forest, because there is more thinking in it!

All explicit knowledge is translated knowledge, and all translation is imperfect.

Anything more low, obscene, feculent, the manifold heaving's of history have not cast up. We shall come to the worship of onions, cats and things vermiculite.