"I've never been a great fan of long speeches. I think they're like a good meal: you enjoy the first few bites, but then you start to get full."

"History is a vast early warning system."

"Of course, we're all here because we believe in the free enterprise system. And I'm a big believer in it. I've always said, if you want something done, give it to a good businessman."

"I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the U.S. Congress."

"We are a nation that has a government, not the other way around."