“We’ve got to strengthen our military long-term. We don’t know what the world is going to throw at us down the road.”

It’s time for the party of big ideas, not the party of Big Brother!

If anyone accuses me of lying, I’ll simply say I’m not lying, which is just an extension of the overall lying strategy.

Only FREEDOM has ever been the answer to poverty.

When you raise taxes on small business, from 35% to 40%, you will kill jobs.

Corporations are people, my friend.

I was in the world of business for 25 years. If you didn’t balance your budget, you went out of business.

I just think the American people had expected that the president of the United States would be able to describe what he’s going to do in the next four years. But he can’t. He can’t even explain what he’s done in the last four years.

I saw the young man over there with eggs Benedict, with hollandaise sauce. And I was going to suggest to you that you serve your eggs with hollandaise sauce in hubcaps. Because there’s no plates like chrome for the hollandaise.

I’m not concerned about the very poor. We have a safety net there. If it needs a repair, I’ll fix it.

Internationally, President Obama has adopted an appeasement strategy. He believes America’s role as leader in the world is a thing of the past. I believe a strong America must – and will – lead the future.

If people are looking for someone who has never changed their mind and is unwilling to admit they make mistakes, that’s not me.

We believe in individual initiative, personal responsibility, opportunity, freedom, small government, the Constitution. These principles, these American principles are key to getting our economy back to being successful and leading the world.

If you want to serve the country, you recognize it’s rough and tumble. And it’s nothing like serving your country in the military.

My doctrine is as I’ve described, which is confidence in our cause, clarity in our purpose, and resolve in our might.

You don’t have to be larger than life to be a hero, just larger than yourself.

Donald Trump trying to do to the American voter what he did to the people that signed up for this course: He’s making promises he has no intention of keeping.

I think America should amass a strategy for success, and set out the milestones. We need to help the Iraqis get their democracy up and running, we’ve got to help them train their military and police and security people, and we’ve got to start moving out.

I am convinced that military action will not prevent further acts of international terrorism against the United States.

Air forces offered the possibility of striking a the enemy’s economic and moral centres without having first to achieve ‘the destruction of the enemy’s main forces on the battlefield’. Air-power might attain a direct end by indirect means – hopping over opposition instead of overthrowing it.

While hitting one must guard … In order to hit with effect, the enemy must be taken off his guard.

You don’t have to be straight to be in the military; you just have to be able to shoot straight.

Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.

As anyone knows who has ever had to set up a military encampment or build a village from the ground up, occupations pose staggering logistical problems.

While there are many causes for which a state goes to war, its fundamental object can be epitomized as that of ensuring the continuance of its policy – in face of the determination of the opposing state to pursue a contrary policy. In the human will lies the source and mainspring of conflict.