I don't accept defeat as final. Only death is final - and even then I hope for a reprieve.

You just hear this constant whining, complaining about a loss of competitiveness, America in decline

Sophia Loren is not a citizen.

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.

All over the world, people want to know what kind of people Texans are, and I explain that Texans are America's ideal Americans.

There's one form of bigotry that is still acceptable in America - that's the bigotry against the successful.

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