As Americans we realize that there is no taxpayer money that wasn't first earned through the sweat and toil of one of our citizens.

I pity the French Cinema because it has no money. I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas.

In the seventies a group of American artists seized the means not of production but of reproduction. They tore apart visual culture at a time of no money no market and no one paying attention except other artists. Vietnam and Watergate had happened everything in America was being questioned.

We do not have a money problem in America. We have a values and priorities problem.

American men as a group seem to be interested in only two things money and breasts. It seems a very narrow outlook.

If we think we have ours and don't owe any time or money or effort to help those left behind then we are a part of the problem rather than the solution to the fraying social fabric that threatens all Americans.

The more money an American accumulates the less interesting he becomes.

We can't go to people who have lost their job at GM and say 'Oh by the way we are going to pay money to build a road here or inoculate children there ' unless we can demonstrate that it is in America's interest. I happen to think it is.

As one digs deeper into the national character of the Americans one sees that they have sought the value of everything in this world only in the answer to this single question: how much money will it bring in?

President Obama's view of a free economy is to send your money to his friends. My vision for a free enterprise economy is to return entrepreneurship and genius and creativity to the American people!