“I didn’t talk to anybody and say, “I’m going to do a speech, do you go some ideas?” This is something I did on my own because I care very deeply about the country.”

I have never once regretted missing a business opportunity so that I could be with my children and grandchildren.

The American culture promotes personal responsibility, the dignity of work, the value of education, the merit of service, devotion to a purpose greater than self, and at the foundation, the pre-eminence of family.

It’s not worth moving heaven and earth, spending billions of dollars just trying to catch one person.

Instead of leading the world by how much we borrow, it’s time that we make sure we lead the world in how much we build and create and invest.

The promise of America has always been that if you worked hard, had the right values, took some risks, that there was an opportunity to build a better life for your family and for your next generation.

So, for instance, let me make this clear: You know I signed a statement. I will not raise taxes on anybody. I don’t want to raise taxes on the American people.

Isn’t it fitting that so many of those who have contempt for the private sector will soon find themselves back in it?

Free enterprise has done more to lift people out of poverty, to help build a strong middle class, to help educate our kids, and to make our lives better than all the programs of government combined.

I am running for president to help create a better future. A future where everyone who wants a job can find one. Where no senior fears for the security of their retirement. An America where every parent knows that their child will get an education that leads them to a good job and a bright horizon.

Mr. President, you were elected to lead. You chose to follow. And now it’s time for you to get out of the way.

I see an America where poverty is defeated by opportunity, not enabled by a government check.

America cannot continue to lead the family of nations around the world if we suffer the collapse of the family here at home.

I believe in an America where millions of Americans believe in an America that’s the America millions of Americans believe in. That’s the America I love.

I’m not familiar precisely with what I said, but I’ll stand by what I said, whatever it was.

The answer for healthcare is market incentives, not healthcare by a Godzilla-sized government bureaucracy.

We still believe in the America that is a land of opportunity and a beacon of freedom. We believe in the America that challenges each of us to be better and bigger than ourselves.

Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner.

The more we care for the happiness of others, the greater is our own sense of well-being.

If you take care of your workers they’ll take care of your business.

Bad leaders care about who is right, good leaders care about who is right.

He who is faultless does not care for the opinion of others.

Take care with the end as you do with the beginning.

Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.

Age gives you an excuse for not being very good at things that you were not very good at when you were young.