“We are borrowing $40,000 per second.”

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.

I’m not someone who’s sort of still trying to figure out what I believe in.

If I have a weakness, it’s that I try to live by the rules. I try to live by the rules, no matter what they are, and I was brought up that way as a kid. Play by the rules.

How much liberty do with want to give up for a false sense of security?

I read all of Ayn Rand’s novels when I was 17.

You can be strong without being involved in every single civil war around the world.

Go out in the world and work like money doesn’t matter, sing as if no one is listening, love as if you have never been hurt, and dance as if no one is watching.

Liking money like I like it, is nothing less than mysticism. Money is a glory.

If you think back to the beginning of cell phones, laptops or really any new technology, it’s always expensive.

Will you be clever at the expense of others, or will you be kind?

I have never understood why it is “greed” to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else’s money.

Money is the wise man’s religion.

Have fun, work hard and money will come. Don’t waste time – grab your chances. Have a positive outlook on life. When it’s not fun, move on.

If you don’t find a way to make money while you sleep, you will work until you die.