“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.”

Moral certainty, clear standards, and a commitment to spiritual ideals will set you apart in a world that searches for meaning.

I believe the tax on capital gains should be zero.

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.

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.

America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.

The downward spiral of Dumbness in America is about to hit a new low.

And it seems to me important for a country, for a nation to certainly know about its glorious achievements but also to know where its ideals failed, in order to keep that from happening again.

I think as you grow up, you realize you have obligations just in your life – being a citizen, being part of humanity – to help other people, to help your country, to help the world.

The principle on which this country was founded and by which it has always been governed is that Americanism is a matter of the mind and heart; Americanism is not, and never was, a matter of race or ancestry.

This country exists as the fulfillment of a promise made by God Himself. It would be ridiculous to ask it to account for its legitimacy.

Wild animals would not stay in a country where there were so many people. Pa did not like to stay, either. He liked a country where the wild animals lived without being afraid.

Gos bless America, my home sweet home.