We're a humane country. We got to make sure that we find the intelligence. We have do it [protecting our boundaries] in a humane way following the law.

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.

No father knows that he is carrying his son up the stairs for the final time

In the '50s, a lot of girls never saw beyond the wedding day.

Obama seems to want to do something to damage rich people.

Chess is a cure for headaches.

If you are not consciously directing your life, you will lose your footing and circumstances will decide for you.

With girls, friendships are hard because you have to learn to get to a maturity level to love them but not want to be them.

I believe that these devices like repetition and rhyme are not artificial, that they're not imposed, somehow, on the language.

If you pray hard enough, water will run uphill. How hard? Why, hard enough to make water run uphill, of course!

After they underestimated you, you Iraqis, now they've come on land; this attempt is our chance to incur losses on them

Five years later I still wake up screaming for him to run