“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.”

We are borrowing $40,000 per second.

You can’t have it both ways. You can’t tell me that you’re taxed enough already, and that you want constitutional government and then in the next breath say, ‘Bring me home some bacon.’ The pig has been picked clean.

We must always embrace individual liberty and enforce the constitutional rights of all Americans-rich and poor, immigrant and native, black and white.

I don’t care if you’re a Republican or a Democrat, there is something profoundly un-American about using the brute force of government to bully someone.

Bipartisanship is not what is missing in Washington. Common sense is.

The only way to save Social Security is to raise the retirement age.

And when the time is right, I hope that African Americans will again look to the party of emancipation, civil liberty, and individual freedom.

No president has the right to say he is judge, jury and executioner.

The state doesn’t own your children. Parents own the children.

In a free society we will tolerate boorish people, who have abhorrent behavior, but if we’re civilized people we publicly criticize that and don’t belong to those groups or associate with those people.

If our freedom is taken, the American dream will wither and die.

The U.S. should never get involved where we have no clear national interest. We should not intervene militarily in a country like Syria, where we can’t separate friend from foe and might end up arming the very people who hate us the most.

The Republican Party is an empty vessel unless we imbue it with values.

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 don’t want to live in a nanny state where people are telling me where I can go and what I can do.

Every child in every neighborhood, of every color, class and background, deserves a school that will help them succeed.