We have benefited greatly from the globalization of the economy in the last 30 years.

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 freed a thousand slaves. I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.

I laugh because your pain is amusing.

Wish not so much to live long as to live well.

I was a Republican and I saw the activists and what they were doing, it was intolerable to me.

Why one day in the country Is worth a month in town; Is worth a day and a year Of the dusty, musty, lag-last fashion That days drone elsewhere.

Capacity for joy Admits temptation.

I find that the monsters are usually the people that I have the most empathy for because they're the ones that are hurt the most. There's a reason why they're the monsters.

Accuracy builds credibility.

Presbyterianism without infant damnation would be like the dog on the train that couldn't be identified because it had lost its tag.

I never say never, but I haven't been given the quality of script to compel me to go on television.