“What is important – what I consider success – is that we make a contribution to our world.”

Rather than reacting to every risk we hear and see, we should make an effort to discern which ones we can do something about.

A great operation on the wrong patient is just as bad as a horrible operation on the right patient. So, you have to have all that together.

What do lawyers learn in law school? They learn to win… What we’ve got to start thinking about is how do we solve problems.

There’s a false narrative that only the political class has the wisdom and the ability to be commander-in- chief. But if you go back and you study the design of our country, it was really designed for the citizen statesman.

I would prefer to just continue to speak about truth and to speak about what makes sense.

I serve God, and my purpose is to please Him, and if God be for you, who can be against you?

All we would have to do is be willing to provide them with some weaponry, some defensive weaponry.

I do not want to get rid of the safety net, I want to get rid of dependency.

Creativity is just learning to do something with a different perspective.

You should see the eyes of some of those children when I say to them we’re going to have to open your head up and take out this tumor. They’re not happy about it, believe me. And they don’t like me very much at that point. But later on, they love me.

I don’t think really conservative or liberal; I think what makes sense.

I think what’s happening with the veterans is a gift from God to show us what happens when you take layers and layers of bureaucracy and place them between the patients and the health care provider.

Illogical thinkers throw names and slurs around because they have no arguments with which to rebut their opponents. Rational people have to keep hammering their points home.

The mind controls so much of the body. We are much more than flesh and blood; we are complex systems.

We don’t need to set this up as we either take a bunch of refugees who will be infiltrated with terrorists, I guarantee you. For them not to be would be terrorist malpractice. And we need to – to choose the right choice, not these false choices.

It’s a very wise thing for people to rationally sit down and look at what the risks are not only on a daily basis, on a weekly basis, on a monthly basis, on a yearly basis, on a lifetime basis, and then plan one’s life accordingly.

Giving is what fuels us. Giving is our future.

The survival of liberty in our land increasingly depends on the success of liberty in other lands.

Our problem is that everybody tries to heal each of the individual aspects of poverty, not poverty itself.

We can’t always see people’s pain; they can always feel our love.

. . .by lifting our hands we symbolically receive everything God is doing in our lives.

In fact, corporations are the infants of our society – they know very little except how to grow (though they’re very good at that), and they howl when you set limits. Socializing them is the work of politics. It’s about time we took it up again.

Health is the most critical thing in our life. With your health anything is possible, without it you can’t do anything.

By thinking big, we can transform our world.