The genius of the American system is that we have created extraordinary results from plain old ordinary people.

I'd rather go to the dentist... but I'm going.

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

I did not come to Washington to be loved, and I have not been disappointed.

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.

...we will not grant amnesty to illegal aliens in this Congress or, hopefully ever again. We did that once. Everybody said it was a one time deal. We were to never do it again. The problem with doing it was we reward people who violated the law. We reward people who came into the country illegally.

Granting amnesty to people who broke the law penalizes the millions of people who are waiting to come to America legally.