The genius of the American system is that we have created extraordinary results from plain old ordinary people.

Government is not the generator of economic growth; working people are.

Quite frankly, I think nothing could do more to immediately bolster national security then enabling us to produce more oil and gas here at home at a price consumers could afford.

I love Texas because Texas is future-oriented, because Texans think anything is possible. Texans think big

We're going to keep building the party until we're hunting Democrats with dogs.

I'm carrying so much pork, I'm beginning to get trichinosis.

Half the world does not know the joy of wearing cotton underwear.

Balancing the budget is like going to heaven. Everybody wants to do it, but nobody wants to do what you have to do to get there.

We're the only nation in the world where most of our poor people are fat.

I own more shotguns than I need. But less shotguns than I want.

There's one form of bigotry that is still acceptable in America - that's the bigotry against the successful.

I am proud of the President's leadership. I am proud to support him in saying: Yes, we are going to do what is necessary now when it is less painful and less expensive.

There are four kinds of Homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy.

Of course, I would like to play the guy next door, but nobody's going to hire me for that kind of role.

This week Disney opened its first ever theme park in China. More than ten thousand children showed up on opening day. And that was just to make the T-shirts.

All good novelists have bad memories. What you remember comes out as journalism; what you forget goes into the compost of the imagination.

The perfect expression of receiving a lifetime award is to be working when they're handing it out.

Wherever you are you will always be in my heart.

There are periods in history when change is necessary, and other periods when it is better to keep everything for the time as it is. The art of life is to be in the rhythm of your age.

Let the soul be assured that somewhere in the universe it should rejoin its friend, and it would be content and cheerful alone for a thousand years.

I'm also all about comfort. Just hanging out and wearing jeans or sweats.