I've made a promise to myself to be a 100% healthy person if nothing else.

I have to keep reminding myself: If you give your life to God he doesn't promise you happiness and that everything will go well. But he does promise you peace. You can have peace and joy even in bad circumstances.

How can you tell somebody whose is pursuing happiness that they're somehow not American when that was the very first promise that America made?

If virtue promises happiness prosperity and peace then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us progress is always an approach toward it.

As a child I was a great liar. Fortunately my mother liked my lies. I promised her marvelous things.

Our promise to our children should be this: if you do well in school we will pay for you to obtain a college degree.

I promised to empower the taxpayer - instead of a handful of big government union bosses.

One of those promises was to limit the size of government and to have the government serve the people - and not the other way around.

I honestly do not know if civil disobedience has any effect on the government. I can promise you it has a great effect on the person who chooses to do it.

Ours is a government of checks and balances. The Mafia and crooked businessmen make out checks and the politicians and other compromised officials improve their bank balances.

President Reagan was elected on the promise of getting government off the backs of the people and now he demands that government wrap itself around the waists of the people.

Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government.

All government indeed every human benefit and enjoyment every virtue and every prudent act is founded on compromise and barter.

Now let me be clear. The path I lay out is not one paved with ever increasing government checks and cradle to grave assurance that government will always be the solution. If this election is a bidding war for who can promise the most goodies and the most benefits I'm not your president. You have that president today.

Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another - too often ending in the loss of both.

I had three points I wanted to make: That not everybody in Hollywood is on the left that Obama has broken a lot of the promises he made when he took office and that the people should feel free to get rid of any politician who's not doing a good job. But I didn't make up my mind exactly what I was going to say until I said it.

It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and the broken promises.