I think we can all agree [Bashar] Assad is a bad and evil actor, but I'm not so sure that we want the Islamic rebels to be in charge of Syria either.

Foreign aid goes from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries.

I've heard of many tragic cases of walking, talking normal children who wound up with profound mental disorders after vaccines.

No Republican questions or disputes civil rights. I have never wavered in my support for civil rights or the civil rights act.

We will not cut one penny from the safety net until we've cut every penny from corporate welfare.

You know, you look at term limits, you poll term limits, 70, 80 percent of Republicans or Democrats are for it.

My great grandfather, like many, came to this country in search of the American Dream.

I don't want to live in a nanny state where people are telling me where I can go and what I can do.

If our freedom is taken, the American dream will wither and die.

I am running for president to return our country to the principles of liberty and limited government.

For liberty to expand, government must shrink. For the economy to grow, government must get out of the way.

What was any art but a mold to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself- life hurrying past us and running away, to strong to stop, too sweet to lose.

The magic of love is that it becomes our memory which we never can forget.

We don't treat Jesus like a puppy, soaking in his excitement over our coming home and then leading him back to stay in the laundry room when we go out to begin another day.

There is a paradox in pride: it makes some men ridiculous but prevents others from becoming so.

When the jig is up, there is no need for additional dancing.

Artists know that you can take an advertising sign and make something joyful with it. It's sometimes hard for people who don’t make things to understand labor and joy and attention and whimsy.

To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs.

If you don't like what you're doing, you can always pick up your needle and move to another groove.

God gave us Lincoln and Liberty, let us fight for both.

Wisely, I say, I am a bachelor.