“Donald Trump is never going to be the nominee. So, I’m not worried about a hypothetical that’s never going to happen.”

American nation was not founded on political principles. This nation was founded on spiritual principles.

I think God has blessed us. He has blessed the Republican Party with some very good candidates. The Democrats can’t even find one.

I don’t care how much you may think they’re funny or how interesting they may sound. If we nominate someone that 40 to 50 percent of our party doesn’t – can’t stand, we are going to lose.

I want people to make a lot more than $9. $9 is not enough. The problem is that if you can’t do that by mandating it in the minimum wage laws. Minimum wage laws never worked in terms of helping the middle class attain more prosperity.

I would say to you that Americans of Hispanic descent want desperately to give their children the chances they never had.

Around the world, America’s influence has declined while this president [Barack Obama] has destroyed our military, our allies no longer trust us, and our adversaries no longer respect us.

If we capture any of these ISIS killers alive, they are going to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and we’re going to find out everything they know, because when I’m president, unlike Barack Obama, we will keep this country safe.

What is the conservative movement? It’s pretty straightforward. We believe that the way prosperity is created is when people have the freedom and the opportunity to pursue their dreams.

Florida is not going to vote for a con artist like Donald Trump.

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

I think that the government of [Nicolas] Maduro has argued to stage a coup in Venezuela, that this is obviously a coup against the country’s democratic institutions.

When you’re the commander in chief, you’re the commander in chief on day one. You don’t get like a six-month grace period.

The greatest thing that we can do for the world is be America.

I think we need to simplify our tax code, but not as a way of generating revenue, as a way of making our tax code more growth- friendly.

70% of children born into poverty will never make it to the middle class. The uncomfortable truth is that there are now a number of other countries with as much or more opportunity than ours. In fact, more people in Canada go on to surpass the income of their parents than in the United States.

We need to have a regulatory budget in America that limits the amount of regulations on our economy. We need to repeal and replace Obamacare and we need to improve higher education so that people can have access to the skills they need for 21st century jobs.

I know when I grew up, it was, if it was daylight outside, get outside. Well, now, with the technological age of computers and everything, everyone’s inside virtually going everywhere they want to go.

We always go out looking for live music after our shows.

I am not afraid of saying something and going and pursuing it. That’s it. I see it in my mind. I say it out loud. I go and do it.

There’s not a pill you can take; there’s not a class you can go to. Stupid is forever.

I don’t know where the stock market is going, but I will say this, that if it continues higher, this will do more to stimulate the economy than anything we’ve been talking about today or anything anybody else was talking about.

We are going to need the capacity to take a courageous stand when and where necessary.

I don’t like losing. But I don’t think I ever go to the park where I have a bad day. I don’t think once.

You wanna get the truth out of me, get me hammered.