If you're going to decide to run a data-driven campaign, decision-making has to follow it.

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.

I happen to feel that the degree of a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting attitudes she can bring to bear on the same topic.

In view of this and other things, I demand forgiveness for being so obviously impressed with my own parents.

The worth of a book is a matter of expressed juices.

I enjoyed my new position as vice president, but it took me a while to get used to the fact that I no longer had the voting privileges I had enjoyed for 10 years as a senator.

You are responsible for the predictable consequences of your actions.

Until we know that we can bear the unbearable, we're always running scared.

Every time I've moved, my work has changed radically.

Don't let your pride or a lack of courage stand in the way of saying you're sorry to people you may have offended.

This game is so elusive. You try to maintain the peaks and level up the valleys.

By ethical argument and moral principle the greatest crimes are eventually shown to have been necessary, and, in fact, a signal benefit to mankind.