If you hear how wonderful you are often enough, you begin to believe it, no matter how you try to resist it.

If you don't accept excuses, then people will stop giving them and will start looking for solutions.

We're not planning for the future. If we continue to spend ourselves into oblivion, we are going to destroy this nation.

A truly moral nation enacts policies that encourage personal responsibility and discourage self-destructive behavior by not subsidizing people who live irresponsibly and make poor choices.

As I was growing up, people were always trying to talk about their sexual conquests, trying to make themselves appear like a cassanova. I'm surprised you haven't heard that, I really am.

I've gotten literally thousands of contacts from people across the country - and the most poignant ones being elderly people - who said I had given up on America and I was just waiting to die.

My favorite subject was recess. Fortunately for me, I had a mother who believed I was smart.