“For those who aspire to live in a high cost, high tax, big government place, our nation and the world offers plenty of options.”

First, the federal government, one of the fundamental responsibilities that it has is to protect the nation’s health and wellbeing. And this [Zika virus] is a threat to public health in the United States. It is a very serious disease.

No community values entrepreneurship and small business more than the Hispanic community.

Government’s role in society is to protect these rights and ensure that we are safe from religious persecution and discrimination.

American nation was not founded on political principles. This nation was founded on spiritual principles.

I think God has blessed us. He has blessed the Republican Party with some very good candidates. The Democrats can’t even find one.

I don’t care how much you may think they’re funny or how interesting they may sound. If we nominate someone that 40 to 50 percent of our party doesn’t – can’t stand, we are going to lose.

I want people to make a lot more than $9. $9 is not enough. The problem is that if you can’t do that by mandating it in the minimum wage laws. Minimum wage laws never worked in terms of helping the middle class attain more prosperity.

I would say to you that Americans of Hispanic descent want desperately to give their children the chances they never had.

Donald Trump is never going to be the nominee. So, I’m not worried about a hypothetical that’s never going to happen.

Around the world, America’s influence has declined while this president [Barack Obama] has destroyed our military, our allies no longer trust us, and our adversaries no longer respect us.

If we capture any of these ISIS killers alive, they are going to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and we’re going to find out everything they know, because when I’m president, unlike Barack Obama, we will keep this country safe.

What is the conservative movement? It’s pretty straightforward. We believe that the way prosperity is created is when people have the freedom and the opportunity to pursue their dreams.

Florida is not going to vote for a con artist like Donald Trump.

Welders make more money than philosophers. We need more welders and less philosophers.

I think that the government of [Nicolas] Maduro has argued to stage a coup in Venezuela, that this is obviously a coup against the country’s democratic institutions.

When you’re the commander in chief, you’re the commander in chief on day one. You don’t get like a six-month grace period.

It’s always a dream to be on the cover, it’s one of the things an athlete always aspires to do, to be on the cover of a videogame, but I never thought I would get to do it this quick.

I want to show people who I really am, especially aspiring basketball players who want to be at this level. That’s what I’m about.

I don’t think that every child in America is going to necessarily aspire to, you know, a four-year degree from a liberal arts college or a certain kind of life. I think that people should learn to be excellent in the thing that they choose to do.

As kids we didn’t complain about being poor; we talked about how rich we were going to be and made moves to get the lifestyle we aspired to by any means we could. And as soon as we had a little money, we were eager to show it.

My message to little kids who aspire to be anything they want to be is to listen to their parents.

For me, as a 14-year-old aspiring to be in the NBA, I wanted to hear from players.

A village in a country which is taking pains to become altogether standardized and pure, which aspires to succeed Victorian England as the chief mediocrity of the world, is no longer merely provincial, no longer downy and restful in its leaf-shadowed ignorance. It is a force seeking to conquer the earth.

The real guru is the pure intellect within; and the purified, deeply aspiring mind is the disciple.