I never get the accountants in before I start up a business. It's done on gut feeling especially if I can see that they are taking the mickey out of the consumer.

I don't really count myself as a very sophisticated businessperson. I'm a creative artist. All I know from business I've picked up along the way.

I get a lot of return business. I think it's all those years I put in traveling around the country people saw me before and had a good time so they want to see me again.

Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.

Democrats think the country works better with a strong middle class real opportunities for poor people to work their way into it and a relentless focus on the future with business and government working together to promote growth and broadly shared prosperity. We think 'we're all in this together' is a better philosophy than 'you're on your own.'

So we really need jobs now. We have to take jobs away from other countries because other countries are taking our jobs. There is practically not a country that does business with the United States that isn't making - let's call it a very big profit. I mean China is going to make $300 billion on us at least this year.

Prosperous farmers mean more employment more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country.

In almost every profession - whether it's law or journalism finance or medicine or academia or running a small business - people rely on confidential communications to do their jobs. We count on the space of trust that confidentiality provides. When someone breaches that trust we are all worse off for it.

If you spend your life competing with business men what do you have? A bank account and ulcers!

Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country.

It's not what you pay a man but what he costs you that counts.

We were probably the last people in the country to get a VCR and we didn't have cable. There wasn't any admiration of glamour no 'I want to look like them or have that lifestyle' because everyone in my town had the same lifestyle. So I didn't think 'Ooh a movie star's birthday!' I just thought 'What?'

A gift with a kind countenance is a double present.

The best way to begin genuine bipartisanship to make America stronger is to work together on the real crises facing our country not to manufacture an artificial crisis to serve a special interest agenda out of touch with the needs of Americans.

The will to work of everyone in the country is the best guarantee of national survival.

The work ahead will be hard. These times demand the best of us - all of us but we can do this. Together we can do this. We can get this country working again. We can get this economy growing again. We can make the safety net safe again. We can do this.

My philosophy is not a bean-counting accounting 'look at this.' It is a philosophy that smaller government is better government and government that is closer to the people is best of all.

America is the best half-educated country in the world.

Your performance depends on your people. Select the best train them and back them. When errors occur give sharper guidance. If errors persist or if the fit feels wrong help them move on. The country cannot afford amateur hour in the White House.

Even a liberal reporter is a patriot wants the best for this country. And people your fair and balanced friends at Fox don't fully understand that.

Canada's the best country in the world.

Great tragedy has come to us and we are meeting it with the best that is in our country with courage and concern for others because this is America. This is who we are.

Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey at a mild season through a pleasant country in easy stages.

Events will take their course it is no good of being angry at them he is happiest who wisely turns them to the best account.