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We have big ideas. I just think that's part of how you campaign. You talk to the American people about big things.
If the Soviet empire still existed, I'd be terrified. The fact is, we can afford a fairly ignorant presidency now.
The secular socialist machine represents as great a threat to America as Nazi Germany or the Soviet Union once did.
Frankly, I would not have made any difference in Vietnam, but much more is what difference it would have made in me.
America is experiencing an Islamist cultural-political offensive designed to undermine and destroy our civilization.
The values of the Left cripple human beings, weaken cities, make it difficult for us to in fact survive as a country.
America is not a country that wanders around trusting people with power. This is a country that wants accountability.
Donald Trump has to understand and his family has to understand that there is a public interest which transcends them.
There should be no mosque near Ground Zero in New York so long as there are no churches or synagogues in Saudi Arabia.
Philosophically, I am very different from normal politicians, and normal consultants found that very hard to deal with.
I expect that Trump believes we do not have an obligation to have a Cold War with Russia, but that he is very cautious.
Nothing gets done (in Congress) unless it's bipartisan. And the reason that matters is that it's a function of reality.
I read 'Men Who Hate Women and the Women Who Love Them,' and I found frightening pieces that related to... my own life.
Trump would represent turmoil - unless he changed, unless he said, 'Now that I got to be president, I'm gonna be normal.'
Have you heard a single national figure tell you all of the crises of the recent past are not economic, they're cultural?
Whether it's his beloved game of polo or his magical success in business, Norman Brinker simply does not know how to lose.
Donald Trump is my leader. And if he decides to drop the swamp and the alligator, I will drop the swamp and the alligator.
In every election in American history both parties have their cliches. The party that has the cliches that ring true wins.
Our generation had been told that life had seriousness, and we came in (to politics) with purpose. We were serving history.
[The Clinton health care initiative is] washed-over old-time bureaucratic liberalism, or centralized bureaucratic socialism.
You serve the country, and you help the President. If the President wants you to leave, you know, you are two corridors down.
All unemployment compensation should be tied to a job training requirement. Now the fact is, 99 weeks is an associate degree.
I think the very concept of an elite commission deciding for the American people who deserves to be heard is profoundly wrong.
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.
The government shut down 12 times under Democratic House Speaker Tip O'Neill. It was only shut down twice while I was speaker.
You know, modern liberals are just, I think frankly, totally off the deep end... their only answer is to yell racism and hide.
If Thomas Edison invented electric light today, Dan Rather would report it on CBS News as, 'Candle-making industry threatened'.
By definition, the person who learns enough to become the nominee is almost certainly the best person for the general election.
Without Jimmy Carter we might not have gotten Ronald Reagan, without Ronald Reagan there would probably still be a Soviet Union.
The terrorism danger to the United States "is even worse than September 11th, when 19 hijackers murdered almost 3,000 Americans."
I think that we've had an invented Palestinian people who are in fact Arabs and who were historically part of the Arab community.
I'm moderately optimistic. We Americans are an enormous country with more than 300 million people so there's reason for optimism.
It is false to suggest that Thomas Jefferson or any other Founding Father believed in a legal barrier to God in the public square.
One of my messages to Republicans is very simple: One-third of your schedule should be listening to people in minority communities.
The Constitution gives the president of the United States an extraordinarily wide grant of authority to use the power of the pardon.
The evidence is sufficient that we should move towards the most effective possible steps to reduce carbon loading of the atmosphere.
If I had to choose Reaganomics or 13 staffers quitting, I think for the average working American, Reaganomics was a much better deal.
I joined a Republican Party that was used to losing, used to being browbeaten by the Democrats. I represent a totally different style.
It was an enormous mistake for us to try to occupy that country after June of 2003. We have to pull back, and we have to recognize it.
our rights come from our Creator and it is impossible to define America if you do not talk in public about where your rights come from.
Frankly, Governor Romney in his career has created more jobs than the entire Obama cabinet combined, so he could actually talk about it.
What is the primary purpose of a political leader? To build a majority. If voters care about parking lots, then talk about parking lots.
A mere forty years ago, beach volleyball was just beginning. No bureaucrat would have invented it, and that's what freedom is all about.
I will go to the NAACP convention, and explain to the African-American community why they should demand paychecks instead of food stamps.
You have to give the press confrontations. When you give them confrontations, you get attention; when you get attention, you can educate.
I have enormous personal ambition. I want to shift the entire planet. And I'm doing it. I am now a famous person. I represent real power.
Defeating Barack Obama becomes, in fact, a duty of national security. Because the fact is, he is incapable of defending the United States.
The time for double standards that allow Islamists to behave aggressively toward us while they demand our weakness and submission is over.
I think that Donald Trump is very concerned about finding the right way to be effective in a responsible way. And he wants to be effective.
We have a choice between those who are failing to deliver and those who are unthinkable ... Neither party currently is where the country is.