"You cannot make an omelet without breaking..." - Quote by Margaret Thatcher

“There are some remarkable parallels between basketball and politics. Michael Jordan has already mastered the skill most needed for political success: how to stay aloft without visible means of support.”

“There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.”

“Socialist governments traditionally do make a financial mess. They always run out of other people's money. It's quite a characteristic of them.”

“I make bad decisions frequently. They're fun.”

“In the book [Today Matters] I talk about successful people make important decisions early in their life, and then they manage those decisions the rest of their life.”

“Probably the most pervasive false belief most of us harbor is the fallacy that only some superhuman act would have the power to turn our problems around. Nothing could be further from the truth. Life is cumulative. Whatever results we're experiencing in our lives are the accumulation of a host of small decisions we've made as individuals, as a family, as a community, as a society, and as a species.”

“I'm away 250 days a year. It's a tough situation.”

“In some cases, in order to protect global issues some sacrifice for national interest is worth it in the long run. Global warming, these things, they suffer everybody.”

“To give one's heart is to give all.”