Jobs are created in the private sector. Not by the president or the government unless they're government jobs.

If the government mandates anything with a price tag on it, then it ought to fund the project.

When I was governor, if I told a joke in front of the press - I learned. I would go, "That was a joke, joke, joke," and I'd say it three times.

I'm a Slovak. And when I was growing up, I believed that I was Czechoslovakian because of what Russia did. They came in and took two separate countries - Slovakia and the Czech Republic - put them together as one.

How come life in prison doesn't mean life? Until it does, we're not ready to do away with the death penalty. Stop thinking in terms of "punishment" for a minute and think in terms of safeguarding innocent people from incorrigible murderers.

If you were to come to Minnesota, I could have you locked up like that. That's power.

In a free society, how can you commit a crime against yourself?