Voting is a right best exercised by people who have taken time to learn about the issues.

The secret of learning to be sick is this: Illness doesn't make you less of what you were. You are still you.

If you think Independence Day is America's defining holiday, think again. Thanksgiving deserves that title, hands-down.

Well, we can't afford blindness anymore. There are tens of thousands of thugs who loathe liberty and love death, and want to annihilate Western civilization.

Today there are about 40 million retirees receiving benefits; by the time all the baby boomers have retired, there will be more than 72 million retirees drawing Social Security benefits.

Many people don't give a rip about politics and know as much about public affairs as they know about the topography of Pluto.

The art of being sick is not the same as the art of getting well.

Every one of our greatest national treasures, our liberty, enterprise, vitality, wealth, military power, global authority, flow from a surprising source: our ability to give thanks.

Sometimes, political campaigns make decent people act and talk like perfect buffoons.

You're young and you're bulletproof and invincible. But never underestimate the power of other people's love and prayer.

There is no Senate rule governing the proper uses of the filibuster.

Memories and emotions could be the greatest form of torture.

There is no escape - man drags man down, or man lifts man up.

I'm cutting taxes. We're going to grow the economy. It's going to grow at a record rate of growth.

Hawaii is a small, close community.

You can run the office without a boss, but you can't run an office without secretaries.

It's a good thing god doesn't let you look a year or two into the future, or you might be sorely tempted to shoot yourself.

There's only one thing I never did and wish I had done: climbed over a fence.

I try to live in the moment and let that moment carry me to the next great place.

I hate wearing anything tight. A corset is my idea of torture.

God is too large to be housed under one roof.