Memo to Congress: America's problem is not that government is too small. It's the spending, stupid!

Every Democrat on Capitol Hill professes to be a fiscal hawk.

In America, small business is a big deal.

Education is a shared commitment between dedicated teachers, motivated students and enthusiastic parents with high expectations.

As freedom-loving people across the globe hope for an end to tyranny, we will never forget the enormous suffering of the Holocaust.

The new discovery of a 3.3 billion barrel oil deposit off Norway's coast cements that nation's claim to being Europe's second largest oil producer.

Just to keep up with population growth, on average our economy needs to be adding about 125,000 jobs per month.

Common sense tells us that we should focus our resources to benefit children, teachers and taxpayers by keeping dollars in the classroom.

Americans are paying for our lack of an energy policy with their jobs and out of their pocketbooks.

Obliging elected Democrats willingly pander to the radical lefties who elevated them to their throne.

In choosing Paul Ryan, Mitt Romney made a fantastic choice and a bold statement to the American people.

I equal parts loved him and could not stand him. I couldn't wake him to share in my distress.

He was evidently the sort of person who posed questions that were traps for you to fall into.

In reading, the mind is, in fact, only the playground of another's thoughts.

Because for me it is almost analgesic to talk about what the white man is doing against us. And it keeps a person frozen in their seat, it keeps you frozen in your hole you’re sitting in.

You throw batting practice, you warm up pitchers, you sit and cheer. You do whatever you have to do to stay on the team.

No task is a long one but the task on which one dare not start. It becomes a nightmare.

"Angel" means messenger of God. But angels are nondenominational. The word "God" sometimes implies a Judeo-Christian orientation, yet angels are universal and ancient archetypes.

When you're out there in Vancouver doing your thing, and then you come down and you see how positive people are - people who are so jazzed and so supportive.

There is a technical, literary term for those who mistake the opinions and beliefs of characters in a novel for those of the author. The term is 'idiot'.

I will confess that I have no more sense of what goes on in the mind of mankind than I have for the mind of an ant.