In order to achieve optimal economic growth, Congress must adhere to sane spending guidelines while promoting smart policies devoted to growing businesses and creating jobs.

There is no struggle, rift, fight between those who claim the banner of the tea party and those who are in the Republican Party. We work together.

We are cooling. We are not warming. The warming you see out there, the supposed warming, and I use my finger quotation marks here, is part of the cooling process.

The reality of it is I think the GOP - Republicans and certainly conservatives - will partner with the Tea Party movement around this country.

The right to do something doesn't mean it's the right thing to do.

We need to uptick our image with everyone, including one-armed midgets.

Not in the history of mankind has the government ever created a job.

My intent was not to go after Rush - I have enormous respect for Rush Limbaugh. I was maybe a little bit inarticulate. ... There was no attempt on my part to diminish his voice or his leadership.

Congress must also enact pro-growth policies that encourage the economy to expand: like making tax relief permanent and repealing the death tax.

Clearly a black man's life is not worth a ham sandwich.

Look, not everybody plays well with each other on the playground. I get that, that's politics.

Hope is bulletproof, truth just hard to hit

If you have a good idea, use it so that you will not only accomplish something, but so that you can make room for new ones to flow into you.

Dance with the clouds.

Conversion does not mean a change of outward appearance; rather it requires a change of mind and results in a transformed life.

Be a good animal, true to your animal instincts.

The bully and his victim never quite forget their first relations.

Retirement is the ugliest word in the language.

Without outward declarations, who can conclude an inward love?

An occasional compliment is necessary to keep up one's self-respect.

The current situation with regard to theory is odd and maybe defined by a paradox.