My belief is you have one chance to make a first impression.

Once our country is fully engulfed in a debt crisis, our economy will be torn apart, and every American will be a victim of the federal government's failure to prevent this disaster.

When it comes to tyrants, dictators and terrorists, strength and the threat of force is the only language they understand.

Peace comes through strength, not through retreat.

I believe in being a happy conservative: that you're happy because your policies will give people greater freedom, greater independence. But you have to explain why your policy makes life better.

We know Africa does not have the same medical treatments as we do.

The simple truth is that the implementation of Obamacare has hurt Americans and their health care more than it has helped.

Outside of the family, education is the greatest determinant of social mobility.

America needs education reform on all levels to expand quality schools, build on past successes, and lower college debt.

It's not easy for the average family to ensure that their child receives a quality education. And the federal government is not making it any easier.

Our ferocious commitment to our children's safety and success, along with our genuine love, drives us to endure the often unhappy experience of disciplining our children.

He was rebuilt, reconstituted by vengeance dressed up as high purpose.

The world was healing itself.

You will fall in love with train rides, and sooner or later you willrealize that nowhere seems like home anymore.

Not to recognize God is to oppose the kingdom of love

Lord, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand; to be loved as to love, with all my heart. With all my heart.

Misprize common sense at your peril is my motto.

The way to good conduct is never too late.

Limitation of means is a precondition of excellence. Creative freedom chooses its limitations. Destructive freedom rejects them heedlessly.

Through tattered clothes great vices do appear; Robes and furred gowns hide all. Plate sin with gold and the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks. Arm it in rags, a pigmy's straw does pierce it.