My intent was not to go after Rush - I have enormous respect for Rush Limbaugh. I was maybe a little bit inarticulate. ... There was no attempt on my part to diminish his voice or his leadership.

There is no struggle, rift, fight between those who claim the banner of the tea party and those who are in the Republican Party. We work together.

We are cooling. We are not warming. The warming you see out there, the supposed warming, and I use my finger quotation marks here, is part of the cooling process.

The reality of it is I think the GOP - Republicans and certainly conservatives - will partner with the Tea Party movement around this country.

The right to do something doesn't mean it's the right thing to do.

We need to uptick our image with everyone, including one-armed midgets.

Not in the history of mankind has the government ever created a job.

Congress must also enact pro-growth policies that encourage the economy to expand: like making tax relief permanent and repealing the death tax.

Clearly a black man's life is not worth a ham sandwich.

Look, not everybody plays well with each other on the playground. I get that, that's politics.

Why do members of my party constantly go after the president personally?

She's a sailboat and I'm an anchor, pulling us both down.

The rules of life are nothing that cannot be fixed.

Ambition is the bridge between reality and living a dream.

In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours.

In a proper pub everyone there is potentially, if not a lifelong friend, at least someone to lure into an argument about foreign policy or the Red Sox.

I wanted to be sure that my donation did two things: went directly into the hands of hurricane victims and that it was an amount that could really impact their lives and make a difference.

The people's prayer, the glad diviner's theme, The young men's vision, and the old men's dream!

The cynic says, "One man can't do anything". I say, "Only one man can do anything."

Ease, a neutral state between pain and pleasure ... if it is not rising into pleasure will be falling towards pain.

When we become truly ourselves, we just become a swinging door, and we are purely independent of, and at the same time, dependent upon everything.