In my view, republican primary debates ought to be moderated by people who would vote in a primary.

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.

No one can hurt you except you give them the power to do so and choose to accept it.

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

She was intelligent enough to realize that her excitement was childish, but not mature enough to care.

Failure is enriching. It's also important to accept that you'll make mistakes - it's how you build your expertise. The trick is to learn a positive lesson from all of life's negative moments.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

I didn't truly understand the depth of my roots until I was old enough to wonder and care.

The difference between a learned man and an ignorant one is the same as that between a living man and a corpse.

Farewell has a sweet sound of reluctance. Good-by is short and final, a word with teeth sharp to bite through the string that ties past to the future.

The heart of a woman is never so full of affection that there does not remain a little corner for flattery and love.

What is more insane than to vent on senseless things the anger that is felt towards men?