“In Texas, we cook bacon a little differently than most folks…MACHINE-GUN BACON.”

The essence of the conservative message should be we want a dynamic nation where anybody with nothing can achieve anything.

Ronald Reagan reignited the American economy, rebuilt the Military, bankrupted the Soviet Union and defeated Soviet Communism. I will do the same thing.

Washington D.C. politics is like Hollywood for ugly people.

But you know what? There’s far more pain involved in rolling over, far more pain in hiding.

Carli Fiorina thinks the answer for Social Security and Medicare is…zero-based budgeting! Christ. People of a certain age are all banging their heads on the table right now.

Move over to Egypt. Once again, the [Barack] Obama administration, encouraged by Republicans, toppled [Hosni] Mubarak who had been a reliable ally of the United States, of Israel, and in its place, [Mohamed] Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood came in, a terrorist organization.

Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan understand that government does not create jobs. Entrepreneurs do.

I have been proud to fight and stand for religious liberty, to stand against Planned Parenthood, to defend life for my entire career.

It’s going to take a new generation of courageous conservatives to help make America great again.

You don’t have to solve every problem at once.

If you want a candidate who is led the fight against Obamacare, who will lift the burdens on small businesses and bring back jobs, I’m the only candidate in the race with that proven record.

This man [Barack Obama] does not have the interests of our country. That’s not his agenda. His agenda is to bring us down to a third-world country.

The Scalia seat is defense. We’re not going to get any better than Justice Scalia. The best we can do is preserve constitutional victories like upholding the Second Amendment, like protecting religious liberty. But we’re not going to get any better.

I think if you’re at home and you don’t want Donald Trump to be the Republican nominee, then the only candidate who can beat Donald is our campaign. And so I would encourage, even if you like another candidate, stand with us if you don’t want Donald to be the nominee.

We are seeing a great awakening. A national movement of We the People, brought together by what unites us – a shared love of liberty, and an understanding of the unlimited potential of free men and free women.

Keep government out of the money of the people, schools of the people, and will of the people.

I vowed to give up sex, bacon, and air travel if I ever made it back to terra firma in one piece.

Grief does not expire like a candle or the beacon on a lighthouse. It simply changes temperature. It becomes a kind of personal weather system.

Alone! Alone! No beacon, far or near! No chart, no compass, and no anchor stay!

Your life in every way should become a beacon of guidance and it should become a means for Dawah.

Your life in every way should become a beacon of guidance and it should become a means for Dawah.

I look at Jerusalem as being a beacon for the three monotheistic religions.