Surely the President can agree with us, that theft from government is not good. I know it’s bold. It’s out on the edge. I know from a Chicago-Springfield background it’s hard to fully grasp that honesty could be part of government.
It’s been one of the most painful things I’ve ever been through in my whole life: trying to understand the degree to which behaviors that I thought were totally appropriate were destructive.
Without Jimmy Carter we might not have gotten Ronald Reagan, without Ronald Reagan there would probably still be a Soviet Union.
When you come to America, you get to become an American, and Trump, who has grandparents who came to the U.S., should understand this as much as anybody.
If a liberal were to attack Justice Clarence Thomas on the grounds that he’s black, we would all go crazy.
Nazis don’t have the right to put up a sign next to the Holocaust museum in Washington.
I will continue to find ways to help poor people find a job, get a job, and learn someday to own the job.
I’m not a natural leader. I’m too intellectual; I’m too abstract; I think too much.
The thing that shocks people… is that I mean what I say. I don’t use hyperbole.
My challenge to all Republicans is to invent the systems and approaches to help people help themselves.
I think conservatives can be for very tough-minded trade.
Because I am much like Reagan and Margaret Thatcher, I’m such an unconventional political figure that you really need to design a unique campaign that fits the way I operate.
The most important social welfare program in America is a job.
I think what you’ll find is overall, overwhelmingly, evangelicals would prefer me to Barack Obama.
If you’re not in ‘The Washington Post’ every day, you might as well not exist.
I’m going to be the nominee. It’s very hard not to look at the recent polls and think that the odds are very high I’m going to be the nominee.
I believe we will elect a new President in 2012.
You have to give the press confrontations. When you give them confrontations, you get attention; when you get attention, you can educate.
Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.
My style is to stay on the offensive: to take risks, to recover very fast when you make a mistake, but to keep moving forward.
One morning, just like 9/11, there’s going to be a disaster. I have yet to see the United Nations do anything effective with either Iran or North Korea.
So I’d be quite happy to have a three-hour Lincoln-Douglas-style debate with Barack Obama. I’d let him use a teleprompter. I’ll just rely on knowledge. We’ll do fine.
Islamic extremism may well be the greatest threat to Western values and Western security in the world.
I clearly have done things that were wrong. I’ve clearly had to seek God’s forgiveness.
I read ‘Men Who Hate Women and the Women Who Love Them,’ and I found frightening pieces that related to… my own life.
I would just say, if Gov. Romney wants to give back all the money he’s earned from bankrupting companies and laying off employees over his years at Bain, that I would be glad to listen to him. And I would bet you $10 – not $10,000 – that he would not take the offer.
The secular elites are so terrified of telling the truth about radical Islam. When you talk about the radical Islamists, we have got to get straight and get serious and talk about it in the right way.
I helped Ronald Reagan and Jack Kemp develop supply-side economics.
The government shut down 12 times under Democratic House Speaker Tip O’Neill. It was only shut down twice while I was speaker.
The Central Park Zoo is a little gem in the middle of the city. Its penguin exhibit is terrific, and the seals are a permanent center of attraction for children.
Politics and war are remarkably similar situations.
We don’t we agree that litigation reform to lower the cost of healthcare would be a good starting point?
Congress was designed by the Founding Fathers to move slowly, precisely to avoid the sudden panic of a one-week solution that becomes a 20-year mess.
If I had to choose Reaganomics or 13 staffers quitting, I think for the average working American, Reaganomics was a much better deal.
By definition, the person who learns enough to become the nominee is almost certainly the best person for the general election.
I was once, I think, bitten on the nose by a lion cub.
If we are all endowed by our creator with the right to pursue happiness, that has to apply to the poorest neighborhoods in the poorest counties, and I am prepared to find something that works, that breaks us out of the cycles we have now to find a way for poor children to work and earn honest money.
People need to hear what I have to say. There’s no one else who can say what I can say. It doesn’t matter what I live.
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