Seeing Syria remove Assad is a very high priority for America.

We will strengthen our security by building missile defense, restoring our military might, and standing by and strengthening our intelligence officers.

I like PBS. I love Big Bird ... But I'm not going to keep on spending money on things to borrow money from China to pay for it.

I'm not going to wear rose-colored glasses when it comes to Russia, or Mr. Putin.

I have never once regretted missing a business opportunity so that I could be with my children and grandchildren.

My wife drives a couple of Cadillacs.

I have some friends who are NASCAR team owners.

I am in favor of stem-cell research. I am not in favor of creating new human embryos through cloning.

Isn't it fitting that so many of those who have contempt for the private sector will soon find themselves back in it?

There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what.

I'm not familiar precisely with what I said, but I'll stand by what I said, whatever it was.

To begin with, I dined there on Monday, and once a week is quite enough to dine with one's own relations.

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

When your intentions are to serve, you will be served.

Speech is a rolling-mill that always thins out the sentiment.

A plain is what a mountain aims to be: the closest you can come to being in outer space while yet having your feet on this planet.

The struggle I went through has value.

Why do old people drive with their mouths open?

There are so many stars shining in the sky, so many beautiful things winking at you, but when Venus comes out, all the others are waned, they are pushed to the background.

Your life is about everyone whose life you touch, and it is about the way in which you touch them.

In the beginning, all I wanted to do was to be a singer and a dancer. That was my real groove, my real interest. When it came to doing films, my biggest goal was to do a commercial.