My parents immigrated to the United States with $10 in their pocket and a belief that the America they had heard about really did exist as the land of opportunity.

The government is not your salvation. The government is not your road to prosperity. Hard work, education will take you far beyond what any government program can ever promise.

The America I know is great - not because government made it great but because ordinary citizens like me, like my father and like you are given the opportunity every day to do extraordinary things.

Hard work and education will take you farther than any government program can ever promise.

Growing up, I had a front row seat to seeing two people work really hard. My dad scrubbed toilets at a private Catholic school for a while and that was to help me get through school.

I understand people, and I think that my life and my history and what I represent can relate to a lot of the women, the independents, the moderate voters.

Difficult things aren't easy, but they're worth it.

Mr. President I am here to tell you we are not buying what you are selling in 2012.

According to liberals, I'm not supposed to exist. I know that I am going to be a target for the Left. I have something to say to them: 'Game On.'

So the America I came to know growing up was filled with all the excitement and possibilities found in living the American dream.

The Democrats have come right out and said it: the power of the central government shall have no limits at all.

Very few problems cannot be solved by either coffee, wine or chocolate.

They’re evacuating the younger kids and everyone’s meeting in the Great Hall to get organized. We’re fighting.

If you have no critics you'll likely have no success.

If we were to wipe out insects alone on this planet, the rest of life and humanity with it would mostly disappear from the land. Within a few months.

As a rule people don't collect books; they let books collect themselves.

You see, another reason for nationalization was that private ownership meant fragmentation.

1/r^2 has a nasty singularity at r=0, but it did not bother Newton-the Moon is far enough.

The right understanding of any matter and a misunderstanding of the same matter do not wholly exclude each other.

Love, and love alone, is capable of giving thee a happier life.

Can that which has cost the artist days, weeks, months and even years of reflection be understood in a flash by a dilettante?