Herman Cain Quotes

Success is not the key to happiness, happiness is the key to success.

The endorsement process is an evolution. What you try to do is you endorse someone that you believe in and their ideas and their solutions align with yours.

Let me tell you what the Cain Doctrine would be, as it relates to Israel if I were president. You mess with Israel, you are messing with the United States of America!

The more toppings a man has on his pizza, I believe the more manly he is. [...] A manly man don't want it piled high with vegetables! He would call that a sissy pizza.

It's not about me, it's about the grandkids. That's what a lot of people don't understand about what Herman is up to.

They call me racist too just because I disagree with a President who happens to be black. You are not racists - you are patriots.

Stupid people are ruining America.

Don't blame Wall Street. Don't blame the big banks. If you don't have a job and you're not rich, blame yourself!

It's not Planned Parenthood. No, it's planned genocide. You can quote me on that.

I am suspending my presidential campaign.

If ObamaCare had been fully implemented when I caught cancer, I'd be dead.

I didn't know I was a conservative when it didn't matter to me growing up.

It's time to get real, folks. Hope and change ain't working. Hope and change is not a solution. Hope and change is not a job.

I believe these words came from the Pokemon movie. Life can be a challenge. Life can seem impossible. It's never easy when there's so much on the line.

They say African Americans. I say black people. I've only been to Africa once. I've been in America all my life!

When they ask me who's the president of Ubeki-beki-beki-beki-stan-stan I'm going to say, you know, I don't know. Do you know? And then I'm going to say how's that going to create one job?

When all else fails the liberals call you names or attack your personality.

Americans need accurate information in order to consider Social Security reform. Too bad the media can't be counted upon to provide it.

There are people who make things happen. There are people who watch things happen and then there are people who ask well, what in the heck happened?

I'm ready for the 'gotcha' questions and they're already starting to come.

I believe in traditional marriage and I believe in the Defense of Marriage Act.

I'm not a professional politician. I'm a professional problem solver.

I can connect with peoples' pain because I was 'po' before I was 'poor'.

Most of the people who are in elective office in Washington, D.C., they have held public office before. How's that workin' for you?

They [China] have indicated that they’re trying to develop nuclear capability and they want to develop more aircraft carriers like we have. So yes, we have to consider them a military threat.

We need a leader, not a reader.

I've never sexually harassed anyone, and yes, I was falsely accused while I was at the National Restaurant Association.

One right decision doth not a great president make.

My motivation for running for Senate was not for the stature of being a senator, but because I wanted to make a difference on issues I feel passionate about.

Okay, Libya. President Obama supported the uprising, correct?... No, that's a different one. I've got to go back, got all this stuff twirling around in my head.

Just look inside and you will find just what you can do.

Nobody motivates today's workers. If it doesn't come from within, it doesn't come. Fun helps remove the barriers that allow people to motivate themselves.

Michele Bachmann... I'm not going to say it. I'm not going to say it.... Tutti-frutti. I know I'm going to get in trouble!

How do you say 'delicious' in Cuban?

I'm not supposed to know anything about foreign policy. Just thought I'd throw that out.

I think that taxes would be fair if we first get rid of the tax code.

People sometimes hold themselves back because they want to use racism as an excuse for them not being able to achieve what they want to achieve.

The biggest - one of the biggest barriers to driving economic growth is the capital gains tax rate. I propose taking it to zero.

There's no hidden secrets going on in the Federal Reserve...

The objective of the liberals is to destroy this country.

There are generally three kinds of people in the world. People who make things happen, people who watch things happen, and people who say, what in the heck happened.

A gold standard is to the moochers and looters in government what sunlight and garlic are to vampires.

We as voters, have long hoped that we would get a businessman instead of a politician in order to help fix America's problems. Well, I am that businessman.

The real problem is clean up the bureaucracy that people have to deal with to become a citizen the right way. And we must truly secure the border. We can't leave it porous.

Just call me Mr. Cain. And in 2013, they can call me Mr. President.

I haven't learned to be politically correct yet.

If the tea party is so racist, how come when they have straw polls the black guy keeps winning?

If you touch the hearts of people you can get people's minds to change, but you have to show them the beauty of not aborting a life.

And I'm here to tell you, the reaction that I'm getting around the country, people are sick and tired of this word in Washington, compromise. This is why nothing ever gets done.

One of the questions that I often get is, 'Why are you running to be President?'. To Be President! What did I miss? I'm not running to go to Disneyland.