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

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.

You cannot give up on the American dream. We cannot allow our fears and our disappointments to lead us into silence and into inaction.

Americans chose a free enterprise system designed to provide a quality of opportunity, not compel a quality of results. And that is why this is only place in the world where you can open up a business in the spare bedroom of your home.

The No. 1 issue in the Hispanic American community is ‘How do I leave my children better off than myself?

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

We can’t win – if we nominate someone – if we nominate someone that half of the Republican Party hates, we’re going to be fighting against each other all the way to November [of 2016]. We will never win that way.

Fear less, hope more. Eat less, chew more. Talk less, say more. Hate less, love more.

Why to mute fish should’st thou thyself discoverAnd not to me, thy no less silent lover?

Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.

Damn referees, I’ll miss them less than anybody.

The less you talk, the more you’re listened to.

My forgiving you doesn’t make my heart hurt less. It takes awhile to heal.

What you need to know is very little, but to know that little takes very very much.

Life-actors never rehearse and need no script. A life-actor uses whatever he has available, nothing more, nothing less.