“Our problem with President Obama isn’t that he’s a bad person. By all accounts, he too is a good husband, and a good father – and thanks to lots of practice, a pretty good golfer.”

My father was a bartender. And the journey from the back of that bar to the [election 2016], to me, that is the essence of the American dream.

Conservatives aren’t anti-immigrant – conservatives are pro-legal immigration.

Well, the most important thing a president will be is commander-in-chief. And that requires having an understanding of the complex issues on foreign policy. Foreign policy presents us often with hard choices, not black or white choices.

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.

All the mathematical sciences are founded on relations between physical laws and laws of numbers.

All i can think about is bed. Were sharing the same thought. Youre thinking about bed too? Im thinking about you in my bed.

Maybe my life isn’t great. We don’t have all the answers. Look at it from my side.

I get over a hundred letters a day from all over the world, from children and parents, and it’s a wonder I ever have time to write books, let alone speak!

All universal moral principles are idle fancies.

We have fools in all sects, and impostors in most; why should I believe mysteries no one can understand, because written by men who chose to mistake madness for inspiration and style themselves Evangelicals?

Time mends all, ends all things earthly.

I have spent myself on all kinds of things … I have advanced much politically but I have written little and moreover have written it badly.