“In Texas, we cook bacon a little differently than most folks…MACHINE-GUN BACON.”

Whatever the history of U.S. intervention in Iraq, our priorities now should be to protect our people and defend our national security interests, not to try to resolve an intractable religious divide some 1,500 years in the making.

What I believe is that we should defend life.

You have a right to have a feather duster. If anyone breaks in, you can make sure they’re really clean as they’re robbing your house.

I think our nation faces enormous challenges, and we need leaders who are willing to tell the truth and do the right thing regardless of the consequences.

It is very simple to be likeable in Washington. You just go along to get along. You just do what your leadership wants.

In the history of humanity, there’s never been a country like America.

A lot of my colleagues actually yell and curse at each other. I don’t do that.

I want more rules, more scrutiny, and to defend the country.

Always be sexy. I salute that message.

Remember the lessons of history – if we don’t learn from history, we’re bound to repeat it.

ISIS says they want to go back and reject modernity? Well, I think we should help them. We ought to bomb them back to the Stone Age.

We need the private sector’s help, because government is not innovating. Technology is running ahead by leaps and bound. The private sector will help, just as I helped after 9/11. But they must be engaged, and they must be asked. I will ask them. I know them.

I appreciate the good work that senators in both parties have put into trying to fix our broken immigration system. There are some good elements in this proposal, especially increasing the resources and manpower to secure our border and also improving and streamlining legal immigration. However, I have deep concerns with the proposed path to citizenship. To allow those who came here illegally to be placed on such a path is both inconsistent with rule of law and profoundly unfair to the millions of legal immigrants who waited years, if not decades, to come to America legally.

If the Republican Party stands for individual liberty, if we defend the Bill of Rights, if we stand for keeping this country safe, then we deserve to win, and if we don’t, we deserve to lose. It shouldn’t be – it’s not just a game of blue team/red team. It is actually about making a difference in people’s lives.

The last 15 years, there has been no recorded warming. Contrary to all the theories that they are expounding, there should have been warming over the last 15 years. It hasn’t happened.

I’m a maniac, and everyone on this stage is stupid, fat and ugly. And Ben [Carson] you’re a terrible surgeon.

I vowed to give up sex, bacon, and air travel if I ever made it back to terra firma in one piece.

Grief does not expire like a candle or the beacon on a lighthouse. It simply changes temperature. It becomes a kind of personal weather system.

Alone! Alone! No beacon, far or near! No chart, no compass, and no anchor stay!

Your life in every way should become a beacon of guidance and it should become a means for Dawah.

Your life in every way should become a beacon of guidance and it should become a means for Dawah.

I look at Jerusalem as being a beacon for the three monotheistic religions.