I'm a competitive person.

I'm a competitive person.

I promised her an interesting life and good food, and the rest is history.

We discussed politics, but we also talked about the importance of hard work, personal responsibility, living within your means, keeping your word. Those lessons stay with you throughout your life.

Thoughtful people of different political philosophies can disagree, but in a very agreeable manner.

Some of the most important conversations I've ever had occurred at my family's dinner table.

I don't know what leadership is. You can't touch it. You can't feel it. It's not tangible. But I do know this: you recognize it when you see it.

Politics is a contest among people of diverse backgrounds and philosophies, advocating different solutions to common problems. The system only works when principled, energetic people participate.

I support stem cell research, including embryonic stem cell research.

Serving in Congress has been the honor of a lifetime.

We're betting, at this place and this time, we have people ready for change in the state of Maryland.

I don't pay any attention to what the 'Baltimore Sun' editorial page says about anything.

If President Obama has his way, you won't recognize the government, the free market system, or, frankly, America as you once knew it. His admonitions and his audacious policy goals demonstrate very clear motives: equalize, discourage dissent, and become a nation of apologists.

It's always an uphill battle. You know, I'm a Republican in Maryland. This is the bluest of the blue.

Maryland has a tradition of Democratic Party conservatism.

Most pundits regard an election year session as an opportunity for the two parties to frame issues and garner political advantage in advance of the approaching election.

No one heard about Bill Clinton on his first trip to New Hampshire. I showed Mike Huckabee around the state years before he ran, and no one knew him then, either.

People believed what I said was what I believed.

The United States Supreme Court has voted 6-3 that voter photo ID is constitutional.

We can dig ourselves out of the ditch that the progressives and Obama-ites have driven us into.

We have no more fundamental obligation in government than to ensure the safety of our citizens.

There is something to grace and deportment, but you determine that for yourself. That's something you own.

I dream in color, and I have visions of feelings and energies that I would love to feel.

The great man who gives a true transcript of his mind fascinates and instructs. Most writers suppress individuality. They wish to please the public.

I'm one of the boys, no better than the last second violinist. I'm just the lucky one to be standing in the center, telling them how to play.

Laboratory experiments, field observations and atmospheric modeling calculations have now established that chemical reactions occurring on PSC particles play a central role in polar ozone depletion.

If a leader comes to office in a seemingly fair election and tolerates dissent, he or she qualifies for our seal of approval.

The music and airlines businesses are tough, but I've been successful in them.

Humankinds desire for peace can be realized only by the creation of a world government.

May Gods love overshadow you at this time you feel unwell and know were here thinking of you and praying for your good health.

I'm a big fan of fatherhood, and I'm a big fan of my family.

Political leaders still think things can be done through force, but that cannot solve terrorism. Backwardness is the breeding ground of terror, and that is what we have to fight.

A considerable share of the world's population still cannot afford comfortable housing, education and quality health care.

I'm not big on snacks, but I if do, I like a few M&M's.

There's always pressure, from other people and yourself. If you're happy with the looks you're born with, then what are you going to do your whole life? We keep thinking up new things and finding better ways of doing things because we're not happy with what we're given.

Fear of failure has always been my best motivator.

The Britney Spears fans aren't going to dig us.

Working with Kano is cool, too: obviously, he's from the same scene, but we've never worked together on a track before, and where, like, better to do it than on a Gorillaz project?

You don't stay undefeated without being a little stubborn.

There are those who say that seeing is believing. I am telling you that believing is seeing.

Animation did not become the dominant form of children's television until the '60s.

I always think of space-time as being the real substance of space, and the galaxies and the stars just like the foam on the ocean.

I have always maintained that society has no business dictating morality.

A great fig should look like it's just about to burst its skin. When squeezed lightly it should give a little and not spring back. It must be almost unctuously sweet, soft and wet.

True friends: only a few have 'em, but only a few will admit that they don't.