"I don't compromise my principles for politics."

"A retired teacher paid $62,000 towards her pension and nothing, yes nothing, for full family medical, dental and vision coverage over her entire career. What will we pay her? $1.4 million in pension benefits and another $215,000 in health care benefit premiums over her lifetime."

"If anybody ran a business like that they would be out of business quickly, and Barack Obama's leadership is driving this business, the United States of America, toward a fiscal cliff."

"Now our founding fathers had the wisdom to know that social acceptance and popularity were fleeing, and that this country's principles needed to be rooted in strengths greater than the passions and the emotions of the times."

"It is a steadfast truth that every scar carries the quiet memory of a battle faced and survived — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"True innovation is born when curiosity dares to question long-settled assumptions. In this truth lies the bedrock of all virtue — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"To know when to speak and when to listen is the hallmark of genuine discernment. Let this simple maxim guide your daily deeds."

"The echoes of eternity remind us that the true master is an eternal student."