The alternative minimum tax was designed to prevent the very wealthiest Americans from overusing certain tax benefits to avoid most of their tax burden.

Inherited wealth, that is not what America is based upon.

Many injuries and deaths can be prevented through an understanding of the dangers of power lines, electrical appliances, extension cords, and lightning.

Let me say at the outset that I do not reflexively oppose international trade.

Unfortunately, more and more Muslim voices are calling for boycotts of the United States and its products.

Over the years, dozens of American companies have filed papers to trade in their U.S. corporate citizenship for citizenship in tax haven countries like Bermuda.

We should stop arguing about tax cuts in this town.

Fundamentally, I believe that the U.S. can improve its international standing and its national security by expanding trade and strengthening its relationships with moderate Muslim countries.

We could quite easily, Republicans and Democrats working together, do something that everybody in America desires, and that is a simplification of our Tax Code.

The number of electrical injuries cared for in hospitals in the US is estimated at as many as 50,000; the cost of these injuries on the US economy is estimated at over one billion dollars per year.

President Bush is manufacturing a crisis by suggesting that Social Security is in imminent danger. It is not.

There are places which exist in this world beyond the reach of imagination.

If you're not a risk taker, you should get the hell out of business.

I stay patient. I don't go out there and try to set a course record. That's probably one of my strengths and one reason I've been able to win major championships.

Cowards die a thousand deaths, but the brave only die once.

I once heard someone on a bus say that this guy had gotten under her skin. And it struck me as a remarkable thought - that someone would affect you so deeply they'd always be a part of you.

God may have mercy, but we won't.

The history of skiing is important to me.

If you're for the right thing, you do it without thinking.

Theatre audiences can't be made to think and cry: at best, they can be made to think and laugh, or to feel and cry.

If you don't stick up for what's yours, and defend what's yours... what are you?