The progressive and liberal mindset believes that to every problem there is a Washington, D.C., solution.

I'm not an expert on the ways of Washington [but] it makes no sense to me that we're not funding control of our border.

If you could bring to me a majority of people to say that we're going to have $10 of spending cuts for $1 of revenue enhancement - put me in, Coach.

By blaming others, we fail to find the real solutions to our problems and we do not carry out our own responsibilities.

Teachers make a difference, and we would serve our students better by focusing on attracting and retaining the quality teachers by raising teacher pay.

I'm the tortoise in the race, but I'm a joyful tortoise.

If I'm president, I'll be a commander-in-chief, not an agitator- in-chief or a divider-in-chief, that I will lead this country in a way that will create greater security and greater safety.

I don't think a party can aspire to be the majority party if it's the old white guy party.

As a candidate, I intend to let everyone hear my message, including the many who can express their love of country in a different language.

We can grow economically and restore America's leadership in the world, so that everybody has a chance to rise up.

Great countries need to secure their border for national security purposes, for economic purposes and for rule of law purposes.

We sail within a vast sphere ever drifting in uncertainty driven from end to end.

I like to get dark sometimes and then come back out into the light.

But how shall we educate men to goodness, to a sense of one another, to a love of truth? And more urgently, how shall we do this in a bad time?

This may be the most important proposition revealed by history: At the time, no one knew what was coming.

No God and no religion can survive ridicule. No political church, no nobility, no royalty or other fraud, can face ridicule in a fair field, and live.

We become what we behold. We shape our tools and then our tools shape us.

If it is true that cowardice is the most grave vice, then the dog, at least, is not guilty of it.

Civil officials have no business meddling in private religious affairs.

If it can be dreamed, it can be done.