“Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets.”

There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don’t care who gets the credit.

I have left orders to be awakened at any time during national emergency, even if I’m in a cabinet meeting.

I know in my heart that man is good, that what is right will always eventually triumph, and there is purpose and worth to each and every life.

A hippie is someone who looks like Tarzan, walks like Jane and smells like Cheetah..

Never let the things you can’t do, stop you from doing what you can.

An economist is someone who sees something that works in practice and wonders if it would work in theory.

The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.

Unemployment insurance is a pre-paid vacation for freeloaders.

Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong.

Entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible for almost all the economic growth in the United States.

America is too great for small dreams.

Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.

Government does not solve problems. It subsidizes them.

Freedom is not free.

We don’t have a trillion-dollar debt because we haven’t taxed enough; we have a trillion-dollar debt because we spend too much.

We will always remember. We will always be proud. We will always be prepared, so we will always be free.

What we have to discover is that there is no safety, that seeking is painful, and that when we imagine that we have found it, we don’t like it.

Those who think they know it all have no way of finding out they don’t.

When you are deciding on next steps, next jobs, next careers, further education, you should rather find purpose than a job or a career,” he said at the time. “Purpose crosses disciplines. Purpose is an essential element of you. It is the reason you are on the planet at this particular time in history.

When you play characters, you shouldn’t just be putting on their characteristics – you should be finding it inside yourself.

We each need to find our own inspiration. Sometimes it is not easy.

Our destiny is largely in our hands.

I find ambition really attractive too – if someone’s good at something they love doing. I want someone who is driven.

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.