There ought to be limits to freedom.

”I favor leaving up to a woman and her doctor the abortion question.”

Quotas are bad for America. It's not the way America is all about.

Any government that supports, protects or harbours terrorists is complicit in the murder of the innocent and equally guilty of terrorist crimes.

Now that I've got the will of the people at my back, I'm going to start enforcing the one-question rule. That was three questions.

What's all this whining about the environment? They're always talking about 'stop the clearcuts.' I mean do the math people. If we were out of trees then we wouldn't have any clearcuts to be complaining about now would we?

Running for governor of Texas against a very popular governor [incumbent Ann Richards] was deemed to be risky. Everybody thought I would lose. As I put in my book, my mother said, "You're going to lose!"