Reintegrating the brain into the rest of the body is absolutely essential to having the kind of long-term health and substantially lower cost [of care] than if you're going to treat them separately.

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.

The image of God is in every human

There's a beauty to wisdom and experience that cannot be faked. It's impossible to be mature without having lived.

All life deserves respect, dignity, and compassion. All life.

I allow no hot-beds in the gardens of Parnassus.

The incidence of memory is like light from dead stars whose influence lingers long after the events themselves.

My parents lived very long lives. And good lives, too. They're great people, but good lives.

Isn't horrible weather great? It means I don't have to wash my car!

Boston is large enough to learn your independence and small enough to make your own.

Nothing fine and noble will ever perish from the earth as long as there are hearts to remember.

I've been terrified of the water, and yet it seems I'm forced to go into in on every movie that I make.