Measured against the scale and momentum of the Soviet empire's challenge, the Reagan administration has failed, is failing, and without a dramatic change in strategy will continue to fail.

One morning, just like 9/11, there's going to be a disaster. I have yet to see the United Nations do anything effective with either Iran or North Korea.

The idea that a congressman would be tainted by accepting money from private industry or private sources is essentially a socialist argument.

Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.

All unemployment compensation should be tied to a job training requirement. Now the fact is, 99 weeks is an associate degree.

President Obama has created at least three jobs that I know of - Bob McDonnell, Chris Christie, and Scott Brown.

It may just be because I get homesick, but I have concluded Washington's cherry blossoms are just plain overrated.

I don't see how the party that says it's the party of the family is going to adopt an immigration policy which destroys families that have been here a quarter century.

I'm not a natural leader. I'm too intellectual; I'm too abstract; I think too much.

If Thomas Edison invented electric light today, Dan Rather would report it on CBS News as, 'Candle-making industry threatened'.

The most important social welfare program in America is a job.

If they don't believe in you or your dreams, then their opinions of you are highly unimportant.

The old woman I shall become will be quite different from the woman I am now. Another I is beginning.

Instead of the question "What must I do for my employer?" substitute "What can I do"

When you back off, it's easier to do mistakes. For me it's better to ski fast.

We argued about how hard it would be to ride a bear, assuming said bear was muzzled.

I'm figuring it out as I go, I'm good at that.

I had no expectation of the level of adulation that would come my way. I just wanted to make a living with a regular role in a television series.

Keep doing what you've been doing and you will keep getting what you've been getting!

And I think right now I'm just enjoying finding something such as One Weekend a Month where I can really resonate with this woman's history and her situation.

But unlike the setup in most organizations, where there's an administrator on top and creative people or doers underneath, I'm basically a doer and I like to have administrative people underneath me.