“I remember when TV networks believed in the First Amendment. It is a messed up situation when Miley Cyrus gets a laugh, and Phil Robertson gets suspended.”

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.

If you can learn to convey what you express in the first rough sketch, you’re really saying what you need to say in that.

I like businesses in transition, first of all. If ever there were a business in transition, it is publishing.

When you manage people, you must first convince them they need managing. So you create the problems and then let the people cry for solutions.

when your child is in trouble, the first thing you do is blame yourself.

James Bond in his Sean Connery days … was the first well-known bachelor on the American scene who was not a drifter or a degenerate and did not eat out of cans.

The first step in learning to love others is the attempt to understand them.

Hegel was the first to state correctly the relation between freedom and necessity. To him, freedom is the insight into necessity.

Wherever despotism abounds, the sources of public information are the first to be brought under its control.