Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.
Newt Gingrich
I think one of the great problems we have in the Republican Party is that we don't encourage you to be nasty. We encourage you to be neat, obedient, loyal and faithful and all those Boy Scout words, which would be great around a campfire but are lousy in politics.
Until someone is prepared to lay out the systemic problem, we will simply go through cycles of finding corruption, finding a scapegoat, eliminating the scapegoat, and relaxing until we find the next scandal.
My style is to stay on the offensive: to take risks, to recover very fast when you make a mistake, but to keep moving forward.
If you live your life as a hostage to everybody else's decision, you either have to live a very narrow life, or you have to spend a lot of time in pain.
I'm not a natural leader. I'm too intellectual; I'm too abstract; I think too much.
You can't trust anybody with power.
I think the destructive, vicious, negative nature of much of the news media makes it harder to govern this country, harder to attract decent people to run for public office.
The time has come to tell the truth about the corruption of the government employee unions in this country.
Without Jimmy Carter we might not have gotten Ronald Reagan, without Ronald Reagan there would probably still be a Soviet Union.
A mere forty years ago, beach volleyball was just beginning. No bureaucrat would have invented it, and that's what freedom is all about.
The most important social welfare program in America is a job.
We need a visionary leader with very big and bold ideas. This is a very big, very bold country.
I've been very clear publicly I'm not a perfect human being, and I've made mistakes in my life, and I've had to apologize to God and to seek reconciliation.
An energy tax punishes senior citizens, it punishes rural Americans, if you use electricity it punishes you. This bill will increase your cost of living and may kill your job.
I can tell you I can work on four or five hours of sleep a night and cat nap all day, and I can go for 8 or 10 days on the road, and it doesn't seem to affect me.
I would replace most foreign aid with a tax credit for businesses to invest. I think U.S. bureaucrats giving foreign bureaucrats money is a guaranteed failure. And we've had about 50 years' experience at failing with foreign aid.
More than just a zoo, the Animal Kingdom is an extraordinary experience of animals, rides and performances. The exhibits have the scale and creativity you associate with Disney. The African safari ride is terrific and worth riding several times.
Politics and war are remarkably similar situations.
You know, modern liberals are just, I think frankly, totally off the deep end... their only answer is to yell racism and hide.
People like me are what stand between us and Auschwitz.
I joined a Republican Party that was used to losing, used to being browbeaten by the Democrats. I represent a totally different style.
The thing that shocks people... is that I mean what I say. I don't use hyperbole.
The one period of glory in NASA was the first nine years when they weren't a bureaucracy yet... and they haven't gotten back to that excitement, that adventurism, and won't. So, I would take most of the NASA budget, and I would turn it into prizes for private sector.
This is a candidate who never even thought about policy. What Trump represents is pure willpower and the notion of breaking through the system.
I am for deporting all recent unattached illegals. I am for a local citizen panel to consider certification of those who have been here 25 years and have family and community and have been law-abiding and tax-paying.
I think conservatives can be for very tough-minded trade.
The Central Park Zoo is a little gem in the middle of the city. Its penguin exhibit is terrific, and the seals are a permanent center of attraction for children.
Why not aspire to build a real Jurassic Park?
I think to close half of Magic Kingdom for the purpose of a White House invitation town hall meeting on a phony main street on behalf of a phony president just strikes me as weird.
My challenge to all Republicans is to invent the systems and approaches to help people help themselves.
One morning, just like 9/11, there's going to be a disaster. I have yet to see the United Nations do anything effective with either Iran or North Korea.
Imagine a judicial nominee said 'my experience as a white man makes me better than a Latina woman.' Wouldn't they have to withdraw? New racism is no better than old racism.
If you're not in 'The Washington Post' every day, you might as well not exist.
Islamic extremism may well be the greatest threat to Western values and Western security in the world.
I think my health is probably fine. Let's be honest, you never know what could happen to somebody, but I think I'm in very good shape right now.
The idea that a congressman would be tainted by accepting money from private industry or private sources is essentially a socialist argument.
The values of the Left cripple human beings, weaken cities, make it difficult for us to in fact survive as a country.
We're at the crossroads. Down one road is a European centralized bureaucratic socialist welfare system in which politicians and bureaucrats define the future. Down the other road is a proud, solid, reaffirmation of American exceptionalism.
I was once, I think, bitten on the nose by a lion cub.
The Constitution of the United States has absolutely nothing to say about a constitutional right to same-sex marriage. Were the federal courts to recognize such a right, it would be completely without constitutional basis.
In every election in American history both parties have their cliches. The party that has the cliches that ring true wins.
I have an enormous personal ambition. I want to shift the entire planet.
I intend to go up there and kick the system over, not try to change it.
If you're not brave, you're not going to be free.
Is the purpose of free elections to allow the most clever and vicious person to aggregate power, or is the purpose of free elections to enable the American people to have a serious conversation about their country's future and try to find both a policy and a personality that they think will carry to them that better future?
I will continue to find ways to help poor people find a job, get a job, and learn someday to own the job.
Should the Catholic Church find itself discriminated against by the Obama administration on key delivery of services because of the bias and the bigotry of the administration?
If you get involved in a controversy, then that becomes the mesmerizing event that people remember you by.
You can either be in the Ron Paul tradition and say there's nothing wrong with heroin and cocaine, or you can be in the tradition that says, 'These kind of addictive drugs are terrible; they deprive you of full citizenship, and they lead you to a dependency which is antithetical to being an American.'
