"My deal is have a flat, simple tax. And - Americans want - Americans I hope - aspire to be - be wealthy. I hope they aspire to have a better quality of life. And we have this class warfare that's going on now. And I don't agree with that. I'm interested in people getting to work."

"When the good lord calls you home, the government ought not come get your home."

"Here is what we know after more than a decade of Republican rule: Texas works. Even 'The New York Times' let it slip into its pages that, 'Texas is the future.'"

"In Michigan, a liberal democrat raised taxes and kept their government programs at the same level. And guess what? Their economy continued into the toilet, it continued down."

"Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made."

"Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared."

"It is a distinction to have many virtues, but a hard lot."

"You watch yourself age and it's hard to feel like a sex symbol."