We will cut programs, we will try to rein in the size of the bureaucracy. We will bring federal pay scales that have become so exaggerated into line with market rates.

People have to take responsibility for themselves. We need to get the housing industry going again. We don't need government intervening in every step.

We know that appropriators will fight these cutbacks. But by eliminating earmarks, we can stop the horse trading that grows agency budgets.

I do not suspect that Jefferson or Madison ever envisioned Congress honoring the 2,560th anniversary of the birth of Confucius or supporting the designation of National Pi Day.

I mean, look, Nancy Pelosi said in the very beginning this is going to be the most open, honest and ethical Congress in history. And what we're seeing is she's breaking that promise every day.

I want what I want when I want it.

What the president announced yesterday, is that somehow magically, if we just continue to prime the pump of taxpayer dollars, we're going to see magically an economic recovery.

In a perfect world we would bring corporate tax rates down to 25% or less so we can get competitive in the world economy. Ultimately, I would love to see a flat tax.

I am hopeful for the American people that we can actually improve the outlook for bringing down costs in health care.

The issue for us is rebuilding a governing majority that is comfortable with differences that can transcend the divisiveness and unify behind the principles that we know our party has succeeded on.

You know, we have a fiscal train wreck before us. And unless we act, and act deliberately, we're not going to enable our kids to have what we have. It's plain and simple as that.

Handling a woman is an art that no one masters.

We are leashed by societal norms, defined by our willingness to conform, but limited only by our imagination.

I've done 80 books and if anyone has entertained the idea of owning one of my books, I think this is the book that covers all the bases. I'm very proud of it.

We knew that there was a certain kind of interest in Whale among a genre crowd.

Many comedians - both male and female - do have an "I will never date another comedian" rule.

He has sat on the fence so long that the iron has entered his soul.

If we have not found heaven within, it is a certainty we will not find it without.

Meditation is not an act, it is a quality. Meditation is not something that you do - it is something that you become.

We must have design in a picture even at the expense of truth. You are using nature for your artistic needs.

Art moves. Hence its civilizing power.