Some people say I'm too blunt and I'm too direct, too straightforward. I think we could use some of that in Washington, D.C.

What's going on in the Senate is kind of a politics of escalation. We're getting sort of like the Mideast: pay back everybody when you're in charge.

Social Security must be preserved and strengthened. But we need to be candid about the costs and willing to make the tough choices that real reform will require.

We cannot win this war on terror if people are undercutting us. And one way to undercut us is to empower Iran.

What is the environmental platform of the Republican party? I don't know either.

We’re not generating enough angry white guys to stay in business for the long term.

Dishonest, which is Hillary Clinton in the eyes of the American people, beats crazy. Dishonest loses to normal. So, let's just pick somebody out of the phone book if we have to.

It's really American to avoid paying taxes, legally.

The sooner we get started with alternative energy sources and recognize that fossil fuels makes us less secure as a nation, and more dangerous as a planet, the better off we'll be.

I'm running because I think the world is falling apart.

Well, the big elephant in the whole system is the baby boomer generation that marches through like a herd of elephants. And we begin to retire in 2008.

Pain was a fascinating horror

God wanted him to go to Him with his deepest needs, to stop looking elsewhere, so that he could be made whole again.

Every 'no' is a 'yes' to something.

So here's the question: Without a change in leadership, why would the next four years be any different from the last four years?

What is God looking for? He is looking for men and women whose hearts are completely His - completely.

I turn the tables and challenge our people, our scouts, and they respond. We had a meeting with our scouts this week and told them [we] will use and value their opinions. That perks them up.

If women want any rights they had better take them, and say nothing about it.

You don't know how to pray? Put yourself in the presence of God, and as soon as you have said, 'Lord, I don't know how to pray!' you can be sure you have already begun.

Anything we tell our kids about life is a placemarker until they figure it out for themselves.

I'm seen as somebody who writes for adults because I'm an older man myself. Some of them find me, and a lot of them don't.