Christmas is the time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell government what they want and their kids pay for it.

Politics, like theater, is one of those things where you've got to be wise enough to know when to leave.

I have no permanent enemies - only people I have yet to persuade.

America has to ask itself not what it wants, but what it can afford.

I believe we all must face the fact of death. It is both gift and curse.

All we know about the new economic world is that nations which train engineers will prevail over those which train lawyers. No nation has ever sued its way to greatness.

We have been maintaining a standard of living by putting things on the debt of the next generation.