Our founders got it right when they wrote in the Declaration of Independence that our rights come from nature and nature's God, not from government.

Exploiting people's emotions of fear, envy and anxiety is not hope, it's not change, it's partisanship. We don't need partisanship. We don't need demagoguery, we need solutions.

We don’t want to turn the safety net into a hammock that lulls able-bodied people to lives of dependency and complacency...

Big-government economics breeds crony capitalism. It's corrupt, anything but neutral, and a barrier to broad participation in prosperity.

A free economy and strong communities honor the dignity of every person, rewarding effort with justice, promoting upward mobility, and building solidarity among citizens.

Mr. Vice President, I know you're under a lot of duress to make up for lost ground, but I think people would be better served if we don't keep interrupting each other.

If somebody is going to try to paste a person's view on epistemology to me, then give me Thomas Aquinas. Don't give me Ayn Rand.

And to this day, my Mom is my role model.

Every successful individual knows that his or her achievement depends on a community of persons working together.

We will not spend four years blaming others, we will take responsibility.

We need to stop spending money we don't have.

When you're a light instead of a dim switch, your brightness radiates in every direction.

Take it for words. O woman’s poor revenge, Which dwells but in the tongue!

Sow something positive to somebody's life and you'll get that positivity back to your life because you reap what you sow.

Phenomena are constantly folded back upon themselves.

I'm really happy to see the explosion of interest in Korean food, and this hybrid Korean-American food.

The thing is, though, that some of these people are my age, right? And I didn't know them. I didn't know Susan Sarandon. I mean, I'd seen her.

A spirit is not necessarily purer, because it is disembodied.

Every man of humane convictions must decide on the protest that best suits his convictions, but we must all protest.

The true mark of maturity is when someone hurts you and you try and understand their situation instead of hurting them back.

A sense of Jesus’ absence might be a sign of his presence- a sign that he’s working already in your life.