The great and abiding lesson of American history, particularly the Cold War, is that the engine of capitalism - the individual - is mightier than any collective.

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.

They say you can take someone who was born in Africa out of the bush but you can't take the bush out of someone born there....

As in nature, all is ebb and tide, all is wave motion, so it seems that in all branches of industry, alternating currents - electric wave motion - will have the sway.

The only thing Christianity can not be...is moderately important.

The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible.

We walk the brink of racial suicide because we were smart enough to make atomic bombs and stupid enough to use them.

The outer form is a temporary reflection of what you are within, in your essence. That is why love and beauty can never leave you, although all outer forms will.

I imagine there's a level of narcissism that goes into thinking you're enough.

Acting is like playing, while directing is really fun, sort of like an orgy.

Kobe [Bryant] had the biggest contract for a high school kid. He was the first one to get more than a million a year.