Pessimism is an excuse for not trying and a guarantee to a personal failure.

A few years back, this guy [Barack Obama] would be serving us coffee.

In our efforts to battle terrorism and cyber attacks and biological weapons, all of us must be extremely aggressive. We must protect our people from danger and keep America safe and free.

Politics is for people who are too ugly to get into showbusiness.

When times are tough and people are frustrated and angry and hurting and uncertain, the politics of constant conflict may be good. But what is good politics does not necessarily work in the real world. What works in the real world is cooperation.

We have no intention of abandoning the American people to unproven theories and extreme positions. We're the people party and we're going to stick up for the people.

It depends upon what the meaning of the word 'is' is.