“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.”

That said, your values will not always be the object of public admiration. In fact, the more you live by your beliefs, the more you will endure the censure of the world.

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.

Education is the investment our generation makes in the future.

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.

We don’t reach the light through endless analysis of the dark. We reach the light by choosing the light.

Life is very simple. What I give out comes back to me. Today, I choose to give love.

It is better for me to die in behalf of Jesus Christ, than to reign over all the ends of the earth.

God will never send anybody to hell. If man goes to hell, he goes by his own free choice.

Instead of getting married again, I’m going to find a woman I don’t like and give her a house.

Forgiveness is the choice to see people as they are now. When we’re mad at people, we’re angry because of something they said or did before this moment. By letting go of the past, we make room for miracles to replace our grievances.

The thoughts we choose to think are the tools we use to paint the canvas of our lives.

The only way the past can drag you back is if you choose to bring it with you into the present.