It doesn't take Warren Buffett to realize that when companies don't know what new rules will look like, it affects their ability to commit capital and create new jobs.

It worries me about our unwillingness to really address reforms and modernization in Medicare. This thing was designed 37 years ago. It has not evolved to keep pace with current medical technology.

Don't let that weapon technology proliferate. Don't let Saddam Hussein get capability for nuclear or chemical weapons, because he's already shown a willingness to use any weapon at his disposal.

Let individuals create real wealth, empower them, create something that they can leave for their children.

Bureaucrats behave very differently than a private-sector manager because their motivations are different. Permanent bureaucrats, no matter how senior, worry about their next job.

People in New Hampshire know that I'll talk thoughtfully, substantively about any issue.

The American formula for creating business is not to have the government create business.

It's good to give seniors more choices and more options, let them choose a plan that's best for them and target assistance to the lowest income people.

If you wait until those weapons pose a direct, clear, present danger to the United States, you've probably waited too long.

Nothing panics politicians like $4 a gallon gas.

Simply put, broadband voice is an interstate matter that must be dealt with through clear national standards.

It was like a bomb had just gone off in the kitchen, and instead of cleaning up the rubble, people were stepping around it and eating mini-quiche.

A true generous heart can never revolve majorly with monetary skills nor business acumen nor cunning mind.

Intolerance is the natural concomitant of strong faith

I think there are a lot of people in this industry that have the ability, that have the position, they have the opportunity, they have the privilege to call the shots and could do it too.

Gossip, or, as we gossips like to say, character analysis.

If you can’t appreciate what you’ve got, you’d better get what you can appreciate.

Who can exhaust a man? Who knows a man's resources?

I couldn't live without music. I experienced things through music in different countries where you cannot speak the same language, but the music and the dance relates everything.

I'd had my share of rain. My mother's illness ... had weighed on me, but the years before had been heavy, too. I was only twenty eight.