The fundamental reason why Medicare is failing is why the Soviet Union failed - socialism doesn't work.

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.

Taking personal accountability is a beautiful thing because it gives us complete control of our destinies.

Poverty does not always prevent a rich person from dating someone who is poor, unless the man is the one who is poor.

How can you ask someone to live in the world and not have something to say about injustice?

Certainly the best times were when I was alone with mathematics, free of ambition and pretense, and indifferent to the world.

I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America.

It's because you're always fighting sentiment. You're fighting sentimentality all of the time because being a mother alerts you in such a primal way.

and our few good times will be rare because we have the critical sense and are not easy to fool with laughter

I didn't want to be the rebel who was bottom of the class, so I worked hard. They wanted me to stay on for A-Levels, but football came calling - that was my real love.

It is as important to cultivate your silence power as your word power.

We do not see what is “real,” we see what we are.