Our first thought is always for those on life's first rung, and how we might increase their chances of climbing.

Our morbidly obese federal government needs not just behavior modification but bariatric surgery.

No feature of the Obama presidency has been sadder than its constant efforts to divide us, to curry favor with some Americans by castigating others.

Our main task is not to see that people of great wealth add to it, but that those without much money have a greater chance to earn some.

I refer to the debt - the new red menace. This time consisting of ink.

The perverse presumption that places the burden of proof on the challenger of spending must be inverted, back to the rule that applies elsewhere in life: 'Prove to me why we should.

We are taking challenges and turning them into opportunities by developing homegrown, local energy production to become independent from foreign sources.

The public is increasingly disgusted with a steady diet of defamation, and prepared to reward those who refrain from it.

We see government's mission as fostering and enabling the important realms - our businesses, service clubs, Little Leagues, churches - to flourish.

If freedom's best friends cannot unify around a realistic, actionable program of fundamental change, one that attracts and persuades a broad majority of our fellow citizens, big change will not come

Every successful enterprise has a very clear strategic purpose.

Honoring your word is the fiber from which trust is built.

Dead voices, lost sounds, forgotten noises, vibrations lockstepping into the abyss and now too distant ever to be recaptured!...What sort of arrows would be able to transfix such birds?

People will frighten you about a graduation....They use words you don't hear often.

It's not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather our concern must be to live while we're alive.

I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.

It is not Reaganesque to support a tax plan that is Clinton in nature.

Joy is a sign of generosity. When you are full of joy, you move faster and you want to go about doing good to everyone.

Everybody knows that Black Sabbath started everything and almost every single thing that people are playing today has already been done by Black Sabbath. They wrote every single good riff... ever.

Part of leadership (a big part of it actually) is the ability to stick with the dream for a long time.

Vision looks inward and becomes duty.