My father fled Cuba, and I will fight to defend liberty because my family knows what it's like to lose 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.

All of sudden, this shooting star went by, and all I could think was that they were listening to us somehow.

I felt so skinless at times! Things hit me so hard!

I thought, if I write a book that is not a retelling of Pride and Prejudice, it's not going to mean that I will not get any criticism. I might as well write the book that I want to write.

I'd like men to think about evolving into something more sophisticated, more seductive. To explore the possibility of an entirely new masculinity.

We need a return to transparency and a system of checks and balances, to a president who respects Congress' role of oversight and accountability.

Don't let your dreams escape / The future's ours to shape

The optimistic style of explaining good events is the opposite of that used for bad events: It's internal rather than external.

If I can't serve as a role model, let me serve as a warning.

I don't really think that the technique really determines the veracity of the image. It's what the image does to the viewer that determines whether it's right or wrong.

I sleep well. In my entire legal career, I have not lost much sleep at night worrying about things, because I've done what I could do in the time I had, and I've got some rest.