“People are angry and dispirited about government because of a failure to do something about crime.”

It is essential that all Americans take the time to honor and remember those individuals who gave their lives in defense of our liberty.

America is a place where we all come together. It is a place of consensus.

So I want my kids to go to public schools because I think it’s a better education overall.

The bottom line is very simple. You negotiate on this, they will up the ante for the debt ceiling.

If you have a sharp bold economic message, you can unite everybody.

We’re going to hammer guns on the anvil of relentless legislative strategy! We’re going to beat guns into submission!

In a brave new world, a post-September 11 world, anyone is going to make certain mistakes. The mistakes that have been made on homeland security, on protecting our Nation from another terrorist attack, are mistakes of omission. We are simply not doing enough.

When you lose an election, you don’t blink, you don’t turn away. You look it right in the eye and say, why did we lose?

Obviously, there are conservatives who are in the mainstream and conservatives who would take people’s rights away.

I think there’s going to be a lot of Americans who are really willing to be much more active than they were before, because they’re worried about where Trump is headed.

Whether you are a Democrat or Republican, whether you are a liberal or a conservative, we know that neither this President nor prior Presidents of both parties did everything right or we would not have had a 9/11.

A devastating commentary on the war in Iraq is that we have been unable to spend money on infrastructure.

The highest priority you can have is education.

Ideological warriors whether from the Left or the Right are bad news for the bench. They tend to make law, not interpret law. And that’s not what any of us should want from our judges.

I made education the highest priority of my campaign – actually education and jobs – and the reason is a simple one: I think the future of America depends on it.

I’m still basically an idealist, which translates into getting real things done to make people’s lives better.

You have not seen power until you have witnessed a soft thing unleash fire from her eyes.

A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.

Hot heads do not give good feedback – choose a better time.

Treat her like the daughter of an angry god.

Meditation can help us embrace our worries, our fear, our anger; and that is very healing. We let our own natural capacity of healing do the work.

Make your smile cheaper and anger expensive!

Anger and anxiety make you tired most.

Everyone wants to get ahead of each other, and when they cannot, they get angry.