Fifty-five years ago, when my dad was a penniless teenager, thank God some well-meaning bureaucrat didn't put his arm around him and say let me take care of you.

I want you to take a good, hard look at me, America, because this is exactly what you’ve got coming.

It took Jimmy Carter to give us Ronald Reagan.

Always be sexy. I salute that message.

Liberty is never safer than when politicans are terrified.

Climate change is the perfect pseudoscientific theory for a big government politician who wants more power. Why? Because it is a theory that can never be disproven.

Every candidate is going to come to you and say they are the most conservative person that ever lived.

I'm a maniac, and everyone on this stage is stupid, fat and ugly. And Ben [Carson] you're a terrible surgeon.

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

I've spent the past month in Washington D.C. and it is terrific to be back in America.

The last 15 years, there has been no recorded warming. Contrary to all the theories that they are expounding, there should have been warming over the last 15 years. It hasn't happened.

You are, and always have been, my dream.

Stop worrying about someone taking your spot. God already have it reserved. Do the work to get there and fill it!

Did you notice there aren’t any average kids anymore—only Gifted and Disposable?

I would rather live a life alone, than live a life based on lies, deceit and manipulation

We should seek international support for our mutual objectives abroad, in promoting freedom, democracy, respect for human rights, and also the elimination of weapons of mass destruction.

My father was the funniest man I ever met. He made Redd Foxx look like an undertaker.

My singing is part of me, like my stoutness, or my light hair, or my poor eyesight.

Frankly, I don't see markets; I see risks, rewards, and money.

The miracle-minded perception would be to make happiness itself our goal and to relinquish the thought that we know what that would look like.

The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.