“If you think you have the right to health care, you are saying basically that I am your slave. I provide health care… My staff and technicians provide it… If you have a right to health care, then you have a right to their labor.”

I’ve put pencil to paper… and I’ve said I would cut spending, and I’ve said exactly where. Each one of my budgets has taken a meat axe to foreign aid, because I think we ought to quit sending it to countries that hate us.

You can send a clear message to the establishment.

[Marco] Rubio says we should collect all Americans’ records all of the time. The Constitution says otherwise. I think they’re both wrong. I think we defeat terrorism by showing them that we do not fear them.

In the aftermath of 9/11, the Patriot Act was rushed to the floor. Several hundred pages. Nobody read it … But people voted because they were fearful and people said there could be another attack and Americans will blame me if I don’t vote on this.

If you give up your rights now, don’t expect to get them back.

If you give up your rights now, don’t expect to get them back.

If you give up your rights now, don’t expect to get them back.

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.

I don’t care if they respect me so long as they fear me.

We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you’re doing so.

There are many ways of supporting gender equality, from something as simple as paid sick leave and flexible work hours to attributing an economic value to all care-giving, and making that amount tax deductible.

I’m much more of a risk taker. I’m more fearless now than when I was 18. I was much more self-aware and I cared too much about what people thought of me and now I really don’t. I probably should.

I could care less about being an action actor like Stallone or Schwarzenegger.

I can’t think of anyone I’ve mistreated. I’ve always thought that I am my brother’s keeper. And I believe there’s a ‘great spirit’ that takes care of all of us.

What reason, like the careful ant, draws laboriously together, the wind of accident sometimes collects in a moment.

I think when you’re in a relationship where you really care for the other person, when they achieve their dreams it’s better than when you do yourself.