“Education is the investment our generation makes in the future.”

That the policies – from energy to labor policies, trade policies, government policies relating to debt and deficits are all aligning in such a way that America, far from being one of the places people are running from, is a place people are going to come to and add jobs.

What you believe, what you value, how you live – matters.

What we have, what we wish we had – ambitions fulfilled, ambitions disappointed, investments won, investments lost, elections won, elections lost – these things may occupy our attention, but they do not define us.

We’ve got to strengthen our military long-term. We don’t know what the world is going to throw at us down the road.

I’m not running, I’m not planning on running, and I’ve got nothing new on that story.

Everything corporations earn ultimately goes to people.

Right now we have an economy in trouble, and someone who spent their career in the economy is more suited to help fix the economy than someone who spent his life in politics and as a community organizer.

Conservatives believe in providing Constitutional rights to our citizens, not to enemy combatants like Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.

I’m a family guy. Most important thing in my life by far is my relationship with my wife and my sons, daughters-in-law, and 18 grandchildren. And for me, this is all about them.

There’s no legislation with regards to abortion that I’m familiar with that would become part of my agenda.

When it comes to pinning blame, pin the tail on the donkeys.

The future of the United States and the most important election in a generation, and he [Donald Trump] is trying to con people into giving them their vote, just like he conned these people into giving them their money.

Together we will build an America where hope is a new job with a paycheck, not a faded word on an old bumper sticker.

Conservatism has had from its inception vigorously positive, intellectually rigorous agenda and thinking. That agenda should have in my three pillars: strengthen the economy, strengthen our security, and strengthen our families.

America has to stand by our allies. I think the tension that existed between Israel and the United States was very unfortunate.

President Obama attacks success and therefore under President Obama we have less success and I will change that.

The simplest explanation is always the most likely.

Never was I power thirsty, or trying to control everyone. I believed in educating everyone, so they could all get to the position I was at.

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

Stupid people go to college but “smart people own them”

Don’t shut yourself up in a band box because you are a woman, but understand what is going on, and educate yourself to take part in the world’s work, for it all affects you and yours.

The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

In these days, it is doubtful that any child may reasonably be expected to succeed in life if he is denied the opportunity of an education.

A scholar has to know a little of everything.