“The Constitution was not written to restrain the citizen’s behavior, it was written to restrain the government’s behavior.”

Are you so afraid that you are willing to trade your freedom for security?

If you’re white and you’re rich in the USA, if you get busted for drugs, you get a good attorney, and you in all likelihood serve no time. But if you’re poor, black, Hispanic, or poor and white for that matter, you can get put in jail.

Using taxes to punish the rich, in reality, punishes everyone because we are all interconnected. High taxes and excessive regulation and massive debt are not working.

You know, you look at term limits, you poll term limits, 70, 80 percent of Republicans or Democrats are for it.

[John] Bolton is so far out there, he`s advocating bombing everyone in the world.

You need to have people within your own party that have the wherewithal to stand up to you.

The Founders never intended for Americans to trust their government. Our entire Constitution was predicated on the notion that government was a necessary evil, to be restrained and minimized as much as possible.

If I were to look at foreign policy, I would say John McCain has been wrong on just about everything over the last four decades.

If someone has Ebola at a cocktail party they’re contagious and you can catch it from them.

The great and abiding lesson of American history, particularly the Cold War, is that the engine of capitalism – the individual – is mightier than any collective.

Let’s means-test benefits – let’s means-test Social Security and Medicare and make the rich pay more for these benefits.

Unless you really stand for something, people aren’t motivated to go out and vote for you.

Cut defense spending as part of cutting all federal spending.

I think women have come a long way. Women are in positions not because they’re women, they’re in positions because they’re intelligent and they should be equal to their counterparts and treated equally.

I am running for president to return our country to the principles of liberty and limited government.

I do believe people ought to be left alone. I don’t care who you are or what you do at home or who your friends are or where you hang out, what kind of music you listen to, what you do in your home is your own business. That’s always been who I am. I am a leave me alone kind of guy.