We are battling fanatics who kidnap and behead civilians and shoot fleeing children in the back. There can be no dialogue with such people, and the American people understand this.

Congress can't take the year off, election or no election.

Cheerleading gave me a love of sports, which I brought to the Senate. I can talk to the good ol' boys about college sports because I follow it like they do.

Well, I think that it's clear that the Republican Party is a pro-life party. And we do value life. And we do believe that the unborn have a right to life.

The important thing is that we recognize our President's leadership, that he is not saying: I am going to walk away from this. He is saying: I am going to do the right thing.

I have long believed taxpayers make better use of their money than the government ever could.

When it comes to dividing Americans on the basis of their gender, I know a little something about the subject.

The traditional role of the Senate has been to be the adult in the room.

Saying youre from Texas makes you kind of proud.

I do think women generally are more humble.

I think when you've been in office for a long time, you have a record, and that record is fair game.

What you see is not true, but what you think about what you see is the truth.

The world I held so closely, she played me like a game, I released and left her laughing to stand on my own two feet.

They are the we of me.

We have little choice but to move beyond quality and seek remarkable, connected, and new. Remarkable, as you've already figured out, demands initiative.

In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man.

Work: a dangerous disorder affecting high public functionaries who want to go fishing.

Heaven: A place where the wicked cease from troubling you with talk of their personal affairs, and the good listen with attention while you expound on yours.

Parents are the most likely to be victims of the violence of their mentally ill children.

Make few resolutions, but keep them strictly

My aim is to show the visible as possibility in a state of perpetual becoming.