"The Republican Party is the Grand Old Party. It's made enormous contributions to the success of our country. And it is a party that has embraced its leadership role when it has had the majority or the White House."

"The challenge is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible."

"In every country today, there is politics. It may be authoritarian politics, but there is politics."

"Somebody had said how only 15 paisa of the one rupee sent from the Centre reached the intended beneficiaries. The job of a leader isn't just to diagnose the disease but to treat it"

"I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him."

"A sarcastic person is a person who is not only witty but also wise."