It's not fair to say that people who work with their head or with their hands ought to pay taxes, but people who earn their living with capital ought not to.

I look at subprime lending and I see the American dream in action.

You've heard of mental depression; this is a mental recession.

Government is not the generator of economic growth; working people are.

We're going to keep building the party until we're hunting Democrats with dogs.

We're the only nation in the world where most of our poor people are fat.

Balancing the budget is like going to heaven. Everybody wants to do it, but nobody wants to do what you have to do to get there.