"I like making things. I have a wood shop at home. I am a terrible carpenter but I love doing it."

"Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy."

"What would annoy the most people most often? That is the true left-wing test of government intervention."

"Positive rights are the right to shelter, the right to education, the right to health care, the right to a living wage. These things are - these are, I would call them, more properly, political rights rather than positive rights. And they are extremely tricky, because now we are dealing with things that are zero sum."

"If you start to think about your physical or moral condition, you usually find that you are sick."

"I think Gingrich has embarrassed the party over time. Whether he'll do it again in the future, I don't know. But Gov. Romney never has."

"There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses."

"I actually think the deafness makes you see clearer. If you can't hear, you somehow see."