“I want to create a culture of life where every innocent human life is welcome to the world. I know those are difficult cases, but I am prolife. And I understand we’ve got to go through the Supreme Court.”

The politically correct crowd is tolerant of all viewpoints, except those they disagree with.

If I were afraid of polls, we wouldn’t have privatized our charity hospital system, we wouldn’t cut our state budget 26%, wouldn’t have cut over 30,000 state government bureaucrats, wouldn’t have done statewide school choice. Here’s the real record.

We will stop Iran from becoming a nuclear power. We will stop that nuclear arms race that could happen in the Middle East.

As we embrace the American dream and the freedoms it represents, we must also ensure that those who wish to enjoy those freedoms become a part of our society and learn to speak our language.

When a law enforcement officer apprehends an illegal immigrant, it makes no sense to simply release that individual who has been breaking our laws with no threat of sanction or penalty.

This is an essential freedom and an essential right and I don’t think you give up this right by simply taking a job.

Finally, we should help developing nations like China and India curb their exponentially increasing consumption of oil and natural gas, which is driving world prices higher.

Janetty tried to dive through the window to escape, what an act of cowardice.

Higher taxes still does not create prosperity for all. And, more government still does not grow jobs.

The threat of terrorism is great and with today’s porous borders, someone could bring a biological weapon into our country or sneak a dirty bomb across unmanned portions of our borders.

The biggest danger, for me, with making yourself your act is that a lot of people with think they know you for better or worse. That’s an ongoing struggle with me and it can get really trippy sometimes.

The American dream means that you have the chance to work hard, get an education and do great things for yourself, for your kids.

Let’s say black, the whole black religious experience, here, is very impressive to me, because when I first arrived I realized that people carry their faith with so much pride.

Music is still part of my spiritual life. Sometimes I sing my prayers. When I get audiences singing, I hope I’m helping them feel connected to something beyond themselves.

We need a doer, not a talker.

I always wanted to do a baseball book; I love baseball. The problem is that a very large part of my following is in non-baseball playing countries.

When we began Starbucks, what I wanted to try to do was to create a set of values, guiding principles, and culture.

The American culture promotes personal responsibility, the dignity of work, the value of education, the merit of service, devotion to a purpose greater than self, and at the foundation, the pre-eminence of family.

In England you’re skewered on the altar of pop culture if you become pretentious.

If you decide to move to another country and to live within its laws you don’t express your disregard for the essence of the culture. It’s a form of aggression.

Businesses often forget about the culture, and ultimately, they suffer for it because you can’t deliver good service from unhappy employees.

For individuals, character is destiny. For organizations, culture is destiny.

Hiring people is an art, not a science, and resumes can’t tell you whether someone will fit into a company’s culture.

The goal is nothing other than the coherence and completeness of the system not only in respect of all details, but also in respect of all physicists of all places, all times, all peoples, and all cultures.