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" I don't know of a single economist who disagrees that when you raise the minimum wage, you kill jobs for the poor. "

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" Politics and war are remarkably similar situations. "

" The Constitution of the United States has absolutely nothing to say about a constitutional right to same-sex marriage. Were the federal courts to recognize such a right, it would be completely without constitutional basis. "

" I'm not a natural leader. I'm too intellectual; I'm too abstract; I think too much. "

" You can either be in the Ron Paul tradition and say there's nothing wrong with heroin and cocaine, or you can be in the tradition that says, 'These kind of addictive drugs are terrible; they deprive you of full citizenship, and they lead you to a dependency which is antithetical to being an American.' "

" I think my health is probably fine. Let's be honest, you never know what could happen to somebody, but I think I'm in very good shape right now. "

" If a liberal were to attack Justice Clarence Thomas on the grounds that he's black, we would all go crazy. "

" The courts have become grotesquely dictatorial and far too powerful. "

" People like me are what stand between us and Auschwitz. "

" I think every religious person should have a deep sense of respect for other people's religious documents and religious symbols just as we were deeply opposed to the Taliban destroying the two historic buddhas which they blew up. So I think we ought to all oppose burning the Koran. "

" Islamic extremism may well be the greatest threat to Western values and Western security in the world. "

" America is experiencing an Islamist cultural-political offensive designed to undermine and destroy our civilization. "

" Have you heard a single national figure tell you all of the crises of the recent past are not economic, they're cultural? "

" Congress was designed by the Founding Fathers to move slowly, precisely to avoid the sudden panic of a one-week solution that becomes a 20-year mess. "

" I clearly have done things that were wrong. I've clearly had to seek God's forgiveness. "

" Until someone is prepared to lay out the systemic problem, we will simply go through cycles of finding corruption, finding a scapegoat, eliminating the scapegoat, and relaxing until we find the next scandal. "

" If we are all endowed by our creator with the right to pursue happiness, that has to apply to the poorest neighborhoods in the poorest counties, and I am prepared to find something that works, that breaks us out of the cycles we have now to find a way for poor children to work and earn honest money. "

" We need a visionary leader with very big and bold ideas. This is a very big, very bold country. "

" We're at the crossroads. Down one road is a European centralized bureaucratic socialist welfare system in which politicians and bureaucrats define the future. Down the other road is a proud, solid, reaffirmation of American exceptionalism. "

" President Obama has created at least three jobs that I know of - Bob McDonnell, Chris Christie, and Scott Brown. "

" If you're not in 'The Washington Post' every day, you might as well not exist. "

" Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did. "

" An energy tax punishes senior citizens, it punishes rural Americans, if you use electricity it punishes you. This bill will increase your cost of living and may kill your job. "

" I can tell you I can work on four or five hours of sleep a night and cat nap all day, and I can go for 8 or 10 days on the road, and it doesn't seem to affect me. "

" In the middle of a recession no tax increase is justified because it kills jobs, and any tax increase is a job-killing measure and should be defeated. "

" You talk about crying! The spring of 1988, I spent a fair length of time trying to come to grips with who I was and the habits I had and what they did to people that I truly loved. I really spent a period of time where, I suspect, I cried three or four times a week. "

" Whether you're talking about Chris Christie, or you're talking about Rick Perry or Scott Walker or John Kasich, there's more interesting evolution at the state level than there is in Washington. "

" I think conservatives can be for very tough-minded trade. "

" I had a period of thinking that I would have been called 'Newt the McPherson,' as in 'Robert the Bruce.' "

" My challenge to all Republicans is to invent the systems and approaches to help people help themselves. "

" Now, I know among the politically correct, you're not supposed to use facts that are uncomfortable. "