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

If more government is the answer, then it was a really stupid question.

Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They’re just braver 5 minutes longer.

When you can’t make them see the light, make them feel the heat.

You can’t tax business. Business doesn’t pay taxes. It collects taxes.

Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15.

No, I’m just a man committed to great ideas.

Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.

All great change in America begins at the dinner table.

It is time to realize we are too great a nation for small dreams. We’re not – as some would have us believe – doomed to an inevitable fate.

A leader, once convinced a particular course of action is the right one, must have the determination to stick with it and be undaunted when the going gets tough.

Our government needs the church, because only those humble enough to admit they’re sinners can bring democracy the tolerance it requires to survive.

We must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women.

A people free to choose will always choose peace.

Trust, but verify.

The federal government did not create the states; the states created the federal government.

We must reject the idea that every time a law’s broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.

What others think about you is none of your business.

I would rather die than have my fans see me without a pair of heels on. And that’s show business.

Anyone who is not investing now is missing a tremendous opportunity.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

A great part, perhaps the greatest part, of the business of our reason consists in the analysation of the conceptions which we already possess of objects.

As long as politics is the shadow of big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance.

If you’re in business, you need to understand the environment. You need to have a vision of the future, and you need to know the past.

You cannot have people in your organization who are pessimists. They take you to mediocrity.