“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.”

Only FREEDOM has ever been the answer to poverty.

When you raise taxes on small business, from 35% to 40%, you will kill jobs.

Corporations are people, my friend.

I was in the world of business for 25 years. If you didn’t balance your budget, you went out of business.

I just think the American people had expected that the president of the United States would be able to describe what he’s going to do in the next four years. But he can’t. He can’t even explain what he’s done in the last four years.

I saw the young man over there with eggs Benedict, with hollandaise sauce. And I was going to suggest to you that you serve your eggs with hollandaise sauce in hubcaps. Because there’s no plates like chrome for the hollandaise.

I’m not concerned about the very poor. We have a safety net there. If it needs a repair, I’ll fix it.

Internationally, President Obama has adopted an appeasement strategy. He believes America’s role as leader in the world is a thing of the past. I believe a strong America must – and will – lead the future.

If people are looking for someone who has never changed their mind and is unwilling to admit they make mistakes, that’s not me.

We believe in individual initiative, personal responsibility, opportunity, freedom, small government, the Constitution. These principles, these American principles are key to getting our economy back to being successful and leading the world.

If you want to serve the country, you recognize it’s rough and tumble. And it’s nothing like serving your country in the military.

My doctrine is as I’ve described, which is confidence in our cause, clarity in our purpose, and resolve in our might.

You don’t have to be larger than life to be a hero, just larger than yourself.

Donald Trump trying to do to the American voter what he did to the people that signed up for this course: He’s making promises he has no intention of keeping.

We have a president, who I think is a nice guy, but he spent too much time at Harvard, perhaps.

Opportunity expands when there is excellence and choice in education, when taxes are lowered, when every citizen has affordable, portable health insurance and when constitutional freedoms are preserved.

I am always motivated. I am ambitious and I want to always improve.

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it’s only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.

Fears, even the most basic ones, can totally destroy our ambitions. Fear, if left unchecked, can destroy our lives. Fear is one of the many enemies lurking inside us.

Success is based on imagination plus ambition and the will to work.

I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody.

Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.

It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.