Nothing gets done (in Congress) unless it's bipartisan. And the reason that matters is that it's a function of reality.

One morning, just like 9/11, there's going to be a disaster. I have yet to see the United Nations do anything effective with either Iran or North Korea.

The idea that a congressman would be tainted by accepting money from private industry or private sources is essentially a socialist argument.

Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.

All unemployment compensation should be tied to a job training requirement. Now the fact is, 99 weeks is an associate degree.

President Obama has created at least three jobs that I know of - Bob McDonnell, Chris Christie, and Scott Brown.

It may just be because I get homesick, but I have concluded Washington's cherry blossoms are just plain overrated.

I don't see how the party that says it's the party of the family is going to adopt an immigration policy which destroys families that have been here a quarter century.

I'm not a natural leader. I'm too intellectual; I'm too abstract; I think too much.

If Thomas Edison invented electric light today, Dan Rather would report it on CBS News as, 'Candle-making industry threatened'.

The most important social welfare program in America is a job.

Because in my head I have more demons than it should be have

The secret is writing down one simple line after another.

What value has compassion that does not take its object in its arms?

When everyone's kind of watching you when you're out and about, it makes it hard.

You can succeed only with God, never against him. You can succeed only with the whole, never against it.

If you're an economist and you're asked to predict what something is going to be like 50 years from now? It's going to be guesswork.

Wait'll next year! is the favorite cry of baseball fans, football fans, hockey fans, and gardeners.

Solitude matters. And for some people it's the air they breathe.

I hold we cannot be said to be aware of our minds save under responsibility.

The period of childhood is a stage on which time and space become entangled.