The government is not your salvation. The government is not your road to prosperity. Hard work, education will take you far beyond what any government program can ever promise.

The America I know is great - not because government made it great but because ordinary citizens like me, like my father and like you are given the opportunity every day to do extraordinary things.

Hard work and education will take you farther than any government program can ever promise.

Growing up, I had a front row seat to seeing two people work really hard. My dad scrubbed toilets at a private Catholic school for a while and that was to help me get through school.

I understand people, and I think that my life and my history and what I represent can relate to a lot of the women, the independents, the moderate voters.

Difficult things aren't easy, but they're worth it.

Mr. President I am here to tell you we are not buying what you are selling in 2012.

My parents immigrated to the United States with $10 in their pocket and a belief that the America they had heard about really did exist as the land of opportunity.

According to liberals, I'm not supposed to exist. I know that I am going to be a target for the Left. I have something to say to them: 'Game On.'

So the America I came to know growing up was filled with all the excitement and possibilities found in living the American dream.

The Democrats have come right out and said it: the power of the central government shall have no limits at all.

Every song may be someone's personal implement of torture.

Whenever you can’t balance what you see with what you believe you have conflict.

The FCC can't enforce press-statement principles without adopting official rules, and those rules must be based on the legal theory of reclassification.

I can play a lot of things, but I haven't mastered any one. I use music really as a form of raw expression; escape from the real world.

He who forsakes his own community and joins another perishes as the king who embraces an unrighteous path.

If there be a God and one has never sought him, it will be small consolation to remember that one could not get proof of his existence.

We may have bad weather in Ireland, but the sun shines in the hearts of the people and that keeps us all warm.

The drug dealers, they sympathize with me. They see me as some sort of pathetic character.

When your own mind tells you to quit, you must ignore your negative thoughts and press on.

Only the unity of all can bring the well-being of all.