We will reverse course on the heavy hand of regulation, discarding Dodd-Frank and any other regulations that advance a political agenda at the expense of jobs and investment on Main Street.

In the myopic world of the liberals, guns are responsible for evil instead of the perpetrator of evil. But criminals are not bound by our laws. That's what makes them criminals.

The foundation for future prosperity is built on the bedrock of good jobs and great schools. We are building a strong foundation one job at a time and one educated Texan at a time.

Running for the presidency's not an IQ test.

I may have the genetic coding that Im inclined to be an alcoholic, but I have the desire not to do that, and I look at the homosexual issue the same way.

I hope I am the Tim Tebow of the Iowa caucuses.

Every life is precious.

Every barrel of oil that comes out of those sands in Canada is a barrel of oil that we don't have to buy from a foreign source.

Dark economic clouds are dissipating into an emerging blue sky of opportunity.

Armed and law-abiding citizens are a greater deterrent to violent crime than 1,000 laws passed by Congress.

America needs jobs, smaller government, less spending and a president with the courage to offer more than yet another speech.

Entrusting one's life is not the same as opening up one's soul.

Dear Governor Whitman, … Our father is not a simple criminal. … He was harassed by more ideas than his mind could stand. …

There is no peace in the world until you find peace within yourself in this moment.

If economists did not concern themselves with economic efficiency, nobody would.

But surely love wouldn't get so much talked about if there were not something in it?

The reason why you don't see people looking like me is because I don't encourage that. I encourage you to be you.

Scars are stories, history written on the body

I don't think America has ever had a center the way London is the center of England or Dublin is the center of Ireland.

I am a huge Pistons fan. Those were some of my best times in college, watching the Detroit Pistons.