"When you live in an alcoholic family or an abusive family, you tiptoe, you don't want to step on any mines."

"A country is made not by policy alone, but by its music, its entertainment shows, all of it."

"Please stop teaching my children that everyone gets a trophy just for participating. What is this, the Nobel Prize? Not everybody gets a trophy."

"We just put General Motors in the hands of people who can't even run our own government."

"No Child Left Behind's fourth-grade gains aren't learning gains, they're testing gains. That's why they don't last. The law is a distraction from things that really count."

"In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom we have to say, Like People like Government."

"If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking."

"There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however imperfect, against tyranny and aggression may result in consequences even worse than war."