In my address last year, I spoke on the issue of gaming. My preference then is my preference now: to keep gaming within its existing contours, but to explore a better deal for all Minnesotans.

A great deal has been said about my commitment not to raise taxes. It's a core value - it's common sense - it's important to keeping and growing jobs - and it's mainstream!

The only thing growing faster than the federal government's deficit is Chris Matthews' man-crush on Barack Obama.

In my address last year, I spoke on the issue of gaming. My preference then is my preference now: to keep gaming within its existing contours, but to explore a better deal for all Minnesotans.

History has taught us over and over again that freedom is not free. When push comes to shove, the ultimate protectors of freedom and liberty are the brave men and women in our armed forces. Throughout our history, they've answered the call in bravery and sacrifice.

We need to be calling out the flaws and misguided decisions of the Democrats in Congress and the Obama administration.

It appears that President Obama is making great progress on climate change, he is changing the political climate in the country back to Republican.

Medicaid is essentially bankrupt, Medicare is essentially bankrupt, why the heck would we give the federal government another entitlement program to manage?

The unions and the auto companies have been unable to put a deal together that fundamentally restructures the industry. It needs to get done. The only way it's really going to get done is in bankruptcy court. They should have done it six months ago they should do it now.

The reason that the unions and the other stakeholders have not cut a deal with the automakers is because they believe the federal government is going to bail them out.

The rising cost of prescription drugs has sparked a prairie fire that is spreading across our nation.

Keeping a lid on taxes is not just good for the taxpayer. It's a powerful way to force government to be more accountable, set priorities and spend smarter. Let me repeat that: more accountable, set priorities and spend smarter - that's what we need to be about.

Leaders have to act more quickly today. The pressure comes much faster.

I've simplified much more in my writing. I say what I've got to say, not in metaphor.

Secondly I would like to make continuous efforts of stabilising cross Strait relations, eventually reaching peace across the Taiwan strait and stability and security in the Asia Pacific region.

I've played a couple of gay characters onstage, and it's always been something I'm comfortable with. I grew up in a family and a culture that doesn't have stigmas about sexuality.

We have to know that life cannot be changed by us. It will be changed. But not by us. We can only guide the things that can cause physical change.

Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.

I think it is the weak and the young and the minorities that you need to look after to get a healthy creative environment - to get a lot of choices, a lot of different styles of music, a lot experimental stuff that everyone else feeds off.

I suppose I arrived at my charitable commitment largely through guilt. I recognized early on that my good fortune was not due to superior personal character or initiative so much as it was to dumb luck.

There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands. You seek problems because you need their gifts.

The thing that we are trying to do at facebook, is just help people connect and communicate more efficiently.

I've been composing music all my life and if I'd been clever enough at school I would like to have gone to music college.

No one is more keen than me to see the Hunting Act repealed, because I believe in the management of wildlife.

All prosperity begins in the mind and is dependent only on the full use of our creative imagination.

I'm going to become the Pope next year. Nothing is impossible.

Happiness came in moments of unpredictable loveliness.

What a jolly thing military surveillance is!

I'm a good person, but with many defects.

Given political history in Chile, it seemed to me that there was a critical task of consolidating a democracy and creating healthy civic-military and political-military relationships.

Myself, first of all, I am a Jew. And that is the most important thing for me.

He knew I enjoyed the relationships of college basketball. All along, he was the wise one.

I'd rather win a pennant than an Academy Award.

My greatest desire is that the hope that has overcome fear in my country will help vanquish it around the world.

Intolerance has been the curse of every age and state.

Uneasy lies the head that craves the crown.