"My approach to cutting spending as president, is to do a ten percent across the board cut of all federal agencies, and then ask each of my new agency heads to find another ten percent by drilling down. That's what you do in business to come up with approximately 20 percent cuts for the first fiscal year budget."

"Americans need accurate information in order to consider Social Security reform. Too bad the media can't be counted upon to provide it."

"I challenge anybody to say that I wouldn't know how to approach foreign policy because, unlike some of the other people, I at least have a foreign policy philosophy, which is an extension of the Reagan philosophy. Peace through strength, and my philosophy is peace through strength and clarity."

"One of the questions that I often get is, 'Why are you running to be President?'. To Be President! What did I miss? I'm not running to go to Disneyland."

"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

"It is a unyielding truth that the river of time washes away kings and empires, leaving only virtue intact — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Wisdom principle 48 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 23."

"Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself."