The enemy is not Islam, the great world faith, but a perversion of Islam.

And if you like 14.4 percent unemployment, if you like the fact that 70 percent of home mortgages in Nevada are underwater, then stay the course. Vote for Harry Reid

Today 25 million Texans can celebrate our liberty, and honor the founding generation of Texans who secured it for us. Happy Texas Independence Day, and God Bless Texas.

If there is a nuclear tactic being used here, I submit it is the use of that obstruction where a willful minority blocks a bipartisan majority from voting on the President's judicial nominees.

Now you must raise your children up in a world where that union of man and box turtle is on the same legal footing as man and wife

Why is it that half of the households in America pay zero income tax? We need some real tax reform.

One of the dangers of being here [the Senate] a while is you may have been on record directly and diametrically opposed to what one is saying today.

I'm speaking of the ability of people of faith to freely express their beliefs in the public square.

I think we ought to talk about what the American people want, and that is jobs and get the economy on track.

A Supreme Court nomination and appointment is not a roving commission to rewrite our laws.

I don't know whether John Roberts has a twin, perhaps a sister or, uh, someone with a Hispanic last name

We have not been created out of nothing, but from primeval "ur-matter, " atoms formed billions of years ago that have for a brief while been gathered into collections that think they are us.

I did what I think a lot of entrepreneurs do. I started putting up a lot of ads on Craigslist for interns.

I think my stubbornness, hardheadedness and stupidity is what has allowed me to play for 20 years.

Nashville used to have more integrity than just looking at the bottom line.

If you ask me, taking on risk and being more daring is a real important part of creativity.

If you don't make up your mind, your unmade mind will unmake you.

Those folks who try to impose analog rules on digital content will find themselves on the wrong side of the tidal wave.

Nothing requires a greater effort of thought than arguments to justify the rule of non-thought.

We come. We go. And inbetween we try to understand.

I'm a songwriter. I've got ideas in the closet that just didn't work out with my band, that I think, "This is a great idea, it's just the wrong guys."