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.

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

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.

Unthought-of Frailties cheat us in the Wise.

I thought I was making fifty dollars a week [at MGM], but it turned out to be $35 because twelve weeks of the year you were on layoff. It was white slavery, and it lasted for seventeen years.

I don't even like hearing my own voice on an answering machine.

I had gained the summit of a commanding ridge, and, looking round with astonishing delight, beheld the ample plains, the beauteous tracts below.

I may be uninspiring, but I'll be damned if I'm alien.

The successful always has a number of projects planned, to which he looks forward. Anyone of them could change the course of his life overnight.

Literally, I think I've quit acting three or four times, only for a few days. Maybe for a few weeks.

How many people in the pews know that [ Jonathan Edwards] is both a founder of evangelicalism and, say, an idealist who denied that the material world exists?

Goering appeared at times to be all things to all men.

When God demands more of you, it's because He sees more IN you