We shouldn't turn the safety net into a hammock. It should actually be a safety net.

But we need to quit taxing people upon death. No taxation without respiration.

In Iowa, we take care of people. That's all I think I need to say.

We should recognize that on the day that we are born, our glass is half full. In America your chance to fill your glass the rest of the way up is greater than it is anyplace else on this planet.

Even though me and Paul Ryan disagree on a whole lot of things, when he stood up and confronted those ugly words that [Donald] Trump said, I was proud of him.

There's one way of looking at the Trump phenomenon that he's essentially a Doofus or he is an opportunist.

I'd like to say is that I am a patriotic, loyal American. I love my country and the values that it stands for. And I am a Muslim.

That's the key: get the constitution in place. Get rule of law in place, capital will come, electricity will follow.

I've assimilated the hit. I've passed along most of what I can and now I'm prepared to live with it. But in my opinion, prices will come down.

All Americans have a sacred duty to guarantee Social Security benefits to our nation's senior citizens

In the department of homeland security and each agency that's there there's a morale problem. It's a different morale problem in each one.

Being a mother is an attitude, not a biological relation.

When a problem or a difficult situation arises, say to yourself, as if you already believe it: "This is for my benefit.

I lived a life, a life of risks, risks I never took.

Faith is an active creative force.

If I was president of the good old U.S.A., I'd turn the churches into strip clubs and watch the whole world pray.

Death is the least civilized rite of passage.

Some actors go, 'Bing!' and suddenly they're being paid huge sums. Me, I seem to get screwed every time.

Luck is being in the right place at the right time, but location and timing are to some extent under our control.

The Republicans were not always insane. They might've had politics I didn't agree with, but they weren't always actually certifiable.

...he seemed to approach the grave as an hyperbolic curve approaches a line, less directly as he got nearer, till it was doubtful if he would ever reach it at all.