On vague wording of drone strike criteria: “Are you going to just drop a hellfire missile on Jane Fonda? Are you going to drop a missile on Kent State? That’s gobbledygook.

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.

Marriage is long enough to have plenty of room for time behind it.

People seem to think that folk music is people with acoustic guitars. Or punk music is people with mohawks, leather jackets.

He that can carp in the most eloquent or acute manner at the weakness of the human mind is held by his fellows as almost divine.

The descent to hell is easy and those who begin by worshipping power, soon worship evil.

Should one continue to base one's life on a system of belief that--for all its occasional wisdom and frequent beauty--is demonstrably untrue?

Act with kindness but do not expect gratitude.

There are no facts, only stories.

Desire of power, on earth a vicious weed, Yet, sprung from high, is of celestial seed: In God 'tisglory; and when men aspire, 'Tis but a spark too much of heavenly fire.

Depression does tremendous damage. Use every ploy you can think of to bring yourself to joy.

Denial, perhaps, is a necessary human mechanism to cope with the heartaches of life.