Our goal is to displace the entrenched powers in Washington, restore the rightful balance between the state and federal government.

In the myopic world of the liberals, guns are responsible for evil instead of the perpetrator of evil. But criminals are not bound by our laws. That's what makes them criminals.

The foundation for future prosperity is built on the bedrock of good jobs and great schools. We are building a strong foundation one job at a time and one educated Texan at a time.

Running for the presidency's not an IQ test.

I may have the genetic coding that Im inclined to be an alcoholic, but I have the desire not to do that, and I look at the homosexual issue the same way.

I hope I am the Tim Tebow of the Iowa caucuses.

Every life is precious.

Every barrel of oil that comes out of those sands in Canada is a barrel of oil that we don't have to buy from a foreign source.

Dark economic clouds are dissipating into an emerging blue sky of opportunity.

Armed and law-abiding citizens are a greater deterrent to violent crime than 1,000 laws passed by Congress.

America needs jobs, smaller government, less spending and a president with the courage to offer more than yet another speech.

She had loved them all, her children. Loved each one the best, but for different reasons.

Writers were a strange sort

A smile is the most beautiful colour in the world.

When we have told how things behave when they are electrified, and under what circumstances they are electrified, we have told all there is to know

Not to remember 9/11, is to forget what brought it about.

From within, from the very most interior center of existence and consciousness, the fact of oneness evermore proves to be the overriding truth.

How to find joy? Let your ambition disappear; ambition is the barrier. Ambition means an ego trip: "I want to be this, I want to be that - more money, more power, more prestige."

Why should I keep doing things that I've done before?

Roger Federer certainly is my claim to be the best of all time - if there is such a thing. With Rafael Nadal not far behind.

Life is not a chain of events but an area-something spreading out from a hidden centre and welling at once toward all points of the compass.