We need leadership. We don't need a doubling down on the failed politics of the past.

Exploiting people's emotions of fear, envy and anxiety is not hope, it's not change, it's partisanship. We don't need partisanship. We don't need demagoguery, we need solutions.

We don’t want to turn the safety net into a hammock that lulls able-bodied people to lives of dependency and complacency...

Big-government economics breeds crony capitalism. It's corrupt, anything but neutral, and a barrier to broad participation in prosperity.

A free economy and strong communities honor the dignity of every person, rewarding effort with justice, promoting upward mobility, and building solidarity among citizens.

Mr. Vice President, I know you're under a lot of duress to make up for lost ground, but I think people would be better served if we don't keep interrupting each other.

If somebody is going to try to paste a person's view on epistemology to me, then give me Thomas Aquinas. Don't give me Ayn Rand.

And to this day, my Mom is my role model.

Every successful individual knows that his or her achievement depends on a community of persons working together.

We will not spend four years blaming others, we will take responsibility.

We need to stop spending money we don't have.

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

Death is the true inspiring genius, or the muse of philosophy, wherefore Socrates has defined the latter as θανάτου μελέτη. Indeed without death men would scarcely philosophise.

I was thrilled one year when I was younger when not only did my brothers get hockey sticks for Christmas - but I did too!

A gold standard doesn't imply stability in the prices of the goods and services that people buy every day, it implies a stability in the price of gold itself.

Opinions: men's thoughts about great subjects. Taste: their thoughts about small ones: dress, behavior, amusements, ornaments.

Vegetarianism is a good idea.

Every prayer is an agreement with yourself. The mind is asking the real you, which is life, to guide your decisions for every single choice that you make.

Learn poetry by heart. If you know a poem by heart, no one can take it away from you, and you can take advantage of it anytime.

God gives sleep to the bad, in order that the good may be undisturbed.

One of the things I think is important about 'Watchmen' is that it have resonance within cinematic pop culture as well as superhero culture.