"I believed the only thing that could turn around this government spending and mounting debt would be if the people rose up."

"If you remember you just have one constituent, and that's God himself, and if you try to please him I think you usually come with a lot steadier pace and a lot more peace in your life."

"If we want to secure the best jobs in the future, we must make America the best place in the world to do business."

"I just want people to know that if they want to change the direction of the country, they can do it, but only if they're active, informed, and engaged."

"The only time some people work like a horse is when the boss rides them."

"One of my great all-time loves in cinema, and I've seen it three times, is Bondarchuk's 'War and Peace.' Not a lot of people may have seen that film. It was made during the Soviet era."

"But for me, being an editor I've been an editor of all kinds of books being an editor of poetry has been the way in which I could give a crucial part of my time to what I love most."

"About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends."