Aggies have a really interesting way of admitting defeat. We've never been outscored. We just ran out of time.

We had a $10 billion budget deficit when we got here in January of 2003. We cut that budget deficit; we did not raise taxes; we came back in '05, and we had an $8 billion surplus. That's how fast it can happen.

It is through states that the American people get the job done every day, often in spite of a deeply flawed bureaucratic federal government.

If you cheat on your wife, you'll cheat on your business partner.

It takes balls to execute an innocent man.

I'll work every day to try to make Washington, D.C., as inconsequential in your life as I can.

I would a whole lot rather had Carly Fiorina over there doing our negotiation than John Kerry. Maybe we would've gotten a deal where we didn't give everything away. But the issue for us is to have a Congress that stands up and says not only no, but "Hell no" to this money going to a [Iran] regime that is going to use it for terror...