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

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.

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 have the most reliable friend you can have in American politics, and that is ready money.

...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.

I own more shotguns than I need. But less shotguns than I want.