“You can send a clear message to the establishment.”

If you’re white and you’re rich in the USA, if you get busted for drugs, you get a good attorney, and you in all likelihood serve no time. But if you’re poor, black, Hispanic, or poor and white for that matter, you can get put in jail.

Using taxes to punish the rich, in reality, punishes everyone because we are all interconnected. High taxes and excessive regulation and massive debt are not working.

You know, you look at term limits, you poll term limits, 70, 80 percent of Republicans or Democrats are for it.

[John] Bolton is so far out there, he`s advocating bombing everyone in the world.

You need to have people within your own party that have the wherewithal to stand up to you.

The Founders never intended for Americans to trust their government. Our entire Constitution was predicated on the notion that government was a necessary evil, to be restrained and minimized as much as possible.

If I were to look at foreign policy, I would say John McCain has been wrong on just about everything over the last four decades.

If someone has Ebola at a cocktail party they’re contagious and you can catch it from them.

The great and abiding lesson of American history, particularly the Cold War, is that the engine of capitalism – the individual – is mightier than any collective.

Let’s means-test benefits – let’s means-test Social Security and Medicare and make the rich pay more for these benefits.

Unless you really stand for something, people aren’t motivated to go out and vote for you.

Cut defense spending as part of cutting all federal spending.

I think women have come a long way. Women are in positions not because they’re women, they’re in positions because they’re intelligent and they should be equal to their counterparts and treated equally.

I am running for president to return our country to the principles of liberty and limited government.

I do believe people ought to be left alone. I don’t care who you are or what you do at home or who your friends are or where you hang out, what kind of music you listen to, what you do in your home is your own business. That’s always been who I am. I am a leave me alone kind of guy.

I’m not someone who’s sort of still trying to figure out what I believe in.

The trick to success is to choose the right habit and bring just enough discipline to establish it.

I myself am a Buddhist, not a Christian. But I cannot help but think that if Christ ran a public establishment, it would be open to all, and He would be the last to refuse service to anyone. It is, simply put, the most un-Christian of notions.

A news conference is a device by which the establishment keeps large numbers of reporters from covering the news every place else.

To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.

Once a trend is established it tends to persist and to run it’s full course.

The secret to productive goal setting is in establishing clearly defined goals, writing them down and then focusing on them several times a day with words, pictures and emotions as if we’ve already achieved them.

A spiritually established life is not an easy task. But a materially satisfied life is an impossible task.

Words no longer have meaning if an Exchange that is not established by a State is “established by the State”.