“I believe the climate is changing because there’s never been a moment where the climate is not changing.”

We are special because we’ve been united not by a common race or ethnicity. We’re bound together by common values. That family is the most important institution in society. That almighty God is the source of all we have.

Presidents in both parties – from John F. Kennedy to Ronald Reagan – have known that our free-enterprise economy is the source of our middle-class prosperity.

My father was a bartender. And the journey from the back of that bar to the [election 2016], to me, that is the essence of the American dream.

Conservatives aren’t anti-immigrant – conservatives are pro-legal immigration.

Well, the most important thing a president will be is commander-in-chief. And that requires having an understanding of the complex issues on foreign policy. Foreign policy presents us often with hard choices, not black or white choices.

What kind of lives or future would my children have if this was not a land of opportunity?

My mother was one of seven girls whose parents went to bed hungry so their children wouldn’t. My father lost his mother when he was nine. He left school and went to work for the next 70 years. They emigrated to America with little more than the hope of a better life.

All human life at every stage of its development is worthy of protection.

To help people emerge from the poverty, you have to understand, what are the structural causes of it? And the structural causes are partially cultural.

The truth is, the greatest tool to lift children and families from poverty is one that decreases the probability of child poverty by 82%. But it isn’t a government spending program. It’s called marriage.

Today you have millions of Americans that feel left out and out of place in their own country, struggling to live paycheck to paycheck, called bigots because they hold on to traditional values.

Donald Trump is not going to be the nominee, because we are not going to allow – people will wake up and we’re not going to allow a con artist to take over the party of [Abraham] Lincoln and [Ronald] Reagan.

Americans chose a limited government that exists to protect our rights, not to grant them.

My dad was a bartender. My mom was a cashier, a maid and a stock clerk at K-Mart. They never made it big. They were never rich. And yet they were successful. Because just a few decades removed from hopelessness, they made possible for us all the things that had been impossible for them.

I could be anything I wanted because I was an American. And I hope that that’s really what’s propelled me into public service.

Government doesn’t have to be the enemy, but too much government has produced a new kind of inequality in America: opportunity inequality.

At the same time, they are routinely pushed away from connecting to their communities as serious problem-solvers capable of changing the world.

It is everywhere, in all parts of the world; and whatever its external form, frequently changing, often impure, yet the gifts wherever received increase our riches.

Seek a reality deeper than the changing forms.

In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.

The world is constantly changing. You’re constantly learning and you have to be willing to get off your mark

A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station, not the factory. It concentrates its energy on infiltrating and changing the image system.

I don’t want to be happy. I just want to change the world.

Stop changing things in a way they are not meant to be.