Mr. Vice President, I know you're under a lot of duress to make up for lost ground, but I think people would be better served if we don't keep interrupting each other.

Exploiting people's emotions of fear, envy and anxiety is not hope, it's not change, it's partisanship. We don't need partisanship. We don't need demagoguery, we need solutions.

We don’t want to turn the safety net into a hammock that lulls able-bodied people to lives of dependency and complacency...

Big-government economics breeds crony capitalism. It's corrupt, anything but neutral, and a barrier to broad participation in prosperity.

A free economy and strong communities honor the dignity of every person, rewarding effort with justice, promoting upward mobility, and building solidarity among citizens.

If somebody is going to try to paste a person's view on epistemology to me, then give me Thomas Aquinas. Don't give me Ayn Rand.

And to this day, my Mom is my role model.

Every successful individual knows that his or her achievement depends on a community of persons working together.

We will not spend four years blaming others, we will take responsibility.

We need to stop spending money we don't have.

So here's the question: Without a change in leadership, why would the next four years be any different from the last four years?

When you go home you ought to go like a ray of light—so that it will, even in the night, burst out of the doors and windows and illuminate the darkness.

We don't go back to wallow, we go back to undo the lies that are back there that are holding its captive from living a wondrous and full life.

An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.

It's powerfully important that our kids get an education in personal finance.

As you meditate, you'll develop a sense of humor so that you can laugh at yourself, which you need to do in this world.

The first thing the communists do when they take over a country is to outlaw cockfighting

And there are a lot of people interested in creative music, there are more and more and more.

Part of Washington keeping its promises is a focus on directing more dollars into our local classrooms.

If I played in New York, they'd name a candy bar after me.

I dont know of one group of people thats more disliked than politicians -- it may be the folks who gave us the Wall Street bailout. And thats where Mitt Romney comes from.