It's not appropriate to joke about the Ku Klux Klan.

We will strengthen our security by building missile defense, restoring our military might, and standing by and strengthening our intelligence officers.

I like PBS. I love Big Bird ... But I'm not going to keep on spending money on things to borrow money from China to pay for it.

I'm not going to wear rose-colored glasses when it comes to Russia, or Mr. Putin.

I have never once regretted missing a business opportunity so that I could be with my children and grandchildren.

My wife drives a couple of Cadillacs.

I have some friends who are NASCAR team owners.

I am in favor of stem-cell research. I am not in favor of creating new human embryos through cloning.

Isn't it fitting that so many of those who have contempt for the private sector will soon find themselves back in it?

There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what.

I'm not familiar precisely with what I said, but I'll stand by what I said, whatever it was.

People change, they grow.

I don't want to write melodies anymore. I can only write really simple, dumb caveman melodies.

Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.

I never underestimate my opponent, but I never underestimate my talents.

The sky outside the window was changing rapidly from deep, velvety blue to cold, steely gray and then, slowly, to pink shot with gold.

In the world we make good as evil and evil as good.

If I hear the word 'perky' again, I'll puke.

One of the characteristics of love relationships that flower is a relatively high degree of mutual self-disclosure

I am not afraid of a fight; I have to do my duty, come what may.

We know from biology that new forms of organisms simulate their primitive form as closely as possible at first, even though obliged to exist under changed internal and external conditions.