“Now, the political class tries to make sense of all of this, but they can’t, because never has the political class or the mainstream media that covers them been more out of touch with the American people than they are today.”

You know, now that I come to think of it, the blizzard may be the best thing to happen to the American economy in 12 months.

Conservatism has always been about reforming government and solving problems, and that’s why the conservative movement should lead on immigration reform.

If you elect me president, we will have a president that believes America is the greatest country in the world and we will have a president that acts like it.

To tackle the big and relevant issues of the day with bold and innovative ideas is without question the most rewarding way to serve.

When Donald Trump’s projects go under, the first people that don’t get paid are the contractors that he’s – some of whom have gone bankrupt.

Every nation on the Earth that embraces market economics and the free enterprise system is pulling millions of its people out of poverty. The free enterprise system creates prosperity, not denies it.

The government doesn’t run the economy. The economy is run by the private sector. The job of the president is to ensure we [the state] have policies that allow the private sector to grow and prosper.

The only people benefiting from the status quo in immigration [in the USA] today are the people trafficking human beings across the border, and the people who are hiring illegal labor for cheap purposes.

Let’s be clear about what this [presidential] campaign is about. It’s not about Donald Trump, he’s an entertaining guys, he’s the greatest show on Earth.

But let me tell you what happens when regulations go too far, when they seem to exist only for the purpose of justifying the existence of a regulator. It kills the people trying to start a business.

I don’t measure success by how many buildings have my name on it.

For those who aspire to live in a high cost, high tax, big government place, our nation and the world offers plenty of options.

I am prepared to discuss the things that I believe we need to do not just to raise the debt limit. Raising the debt limit is the easiest thing. That’s one vote away. The hard thing is to show the world we are serious about putting our spending in order so we can show people we’ll able to pay our bills down the road.

For more than two generations, my family had never achieved their ambitions. Their talents were unappreciated and unused. They deserved better. They hadn’t done anything wrong; they just had some bad breaks.

I don’t agree with the notion that some are putting out there, including scientists, that somehow there are actions we can take today that would actually have an impact on what’s happening in our climate.

They made it to the middle class, my dad working as a bartender and my mother as a cashier and a maid. I didn’t inherit any money from them. But I inherited something far better – the real opportunity to accomplish my dreams.

In other countries you can do high-level maths or general maths, whereas we’ve just got all-or-nothing.

The natural force within each of us is that greatest healer of all.

When you are new at sheep-raising and your ewe has a lamb, your impulse is to stay there and help it nurse and see to it and all. After a while, you know that the best thing you can do is walk out of the barn.

There’s many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but it is all hell.

All parts of the body which have a function, if used in moderation and exercised in labors in which each is accustomed, become thereby healthy, well developed and age more slowly, but if unused they become liable to disease, defective in growth and age quickly.

It means I have a responsibility to make sure that all public spending is justified.

All the time. I feel like I’m not taken seriously.

War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.