“If my name were John D Smith IV I wouldn’t have been elected to anything.”

I believe the power to make money is a gift of God.

Own nothing, control everything.

That is not true I am not a greedy man because if I was why would i donate money to charity? I care about others as well.

When work goes out of style we may expect to see civilization totter and fall.

I have ways of making money that you know nothing of.

A friendship built on business can be glorious, while a business built on friendship can be murder.

I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money’s sake.

To think! All that power and he wasn’t even rich!

The major fortunes in America have been made in land.

Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.

When a man has accumulated a sum of money, accumulated it within the law, the Government has no right to share in its earnings.

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

A man’s wealth must be determined by the relation of his desires and expenditures to his income. If he feels rich on ten dollars, and has everything else he desires, he really is rich.

Do not many of us who fail to achieve big things fail because we lack concentration-the art of concentrating the mind on the thing to be done at the proper time and to the exclusion of everything else?

I had to work my way up to be where I am now. All these companies could have done the same.

It is very important to remember what other people tell you, not so much what you yourself already know.

If we’re going to achieve the change we need, we must elect strong progressives to Congress.

This is a frightening statistic. More people vote in ‘American Idol’ than in any US election.

Transparency and the rule of law will be the touchstones of this presidency.

Making your voice heard, even if you are like me and not of voting age, is important today and everyday.

You didn’t elect me to tell you what you wanted to hear. You elected me to tell you the truth.

We cannot re-elect a president who does not believe in democracy.

The election is not just about the economy, climate change, education and health care. This is about whether we retain American democracy.

This is not just an election on the issues. This is an election on the future of American democracy.