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" I could have possibly beaten Senator McCain in the primary. Then I could have been the candidate who lost to Barack Obama. "

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" Republicans prefer straight talk to politically correct talk! "

" I think there's a character one has if you're a chief executive officer. Movies would suggest you're a bad person - if you're wealthy, if you've done well, oh, you must be bad. And frankly, winning the lottery doesn't change who you are; you're the same person inside. And I'm the same person I was as an 18-year-old who fell in love with Ann. "

" If we become one of those societies that attack success, why not come as certain there will be a lot less success? And that's not who we are. "

" I'm not concerned about the very poor. We have a safety net there. If it needs a repair, I'll fix it. "

" No person I have ever met, not even the most righteous or pure of heart, has gone without those times when faith recedes in the busy-ness of life. "

" What does it say about a president's policies when he has to use a cartoon character rather than real people to justify his record? What does it say about the fiction of old liberalism to insist that good jobs and good schools and good wages will result from policies that have failed us, time and again? "

" As a little boy, I wanted to be a policeman. And then as I got older, and I saw my dad in the car business, an automobile executive. "

" I have a PC. My sons have a Mac and swear by it, but I have a couple PC's. "

" What you believe, what you value, how you live, matters. "

" My dad was phenomenal. Born in Mexico, lived poor, didn't graduate from college, and becomes head of a car company and then governor of a state. I can't imagine I would have ever thought about running for office had I not seen my dad do it. "

" I think Dodd-Frank has contributed to a concentration of banking assets in the hands of a small number of banks. "

" Together we will build an America where hope is a new job with a paycheck, not a faded word on an old bumper sticker. "

" I would love to say to all Americans: 'Each candidate is going to produce a film of an hour and a half. You're going to watch one from each candidate, and then you're going to vote!' "

" I recognize that as the guy who lost the election, I'm not in a position to tell everybody else how to win, all right? They're not going to listen, and I don't have the credibility to do that anyway. "

" I know what it's like to start a business. I know how extra ordinarily difficult it is to build something from nothing. I know how government kills jobs and, yes, I know how it can help from time- to-time. "

" I talk a great deal to prior Secretaries of State about policy issues. "

" Three years ago, this week, a newly elected President Obama faced the American people and he said, look, if I can't turn this economy around in three years, I'll be looking at a one-term proposition, and we're here to collect! You know the results. It's been 35 months of unemployment above 8 percent. "

" Moral certainty, clear standards, and a commitment to spiritual ideals will set you apart in a world that searches for meaning. "

" I've always been a rodent and rabbit hunter - small varmints, if you will. I began when I was 15 or so, and I have hunted those kinds of varmints since then. "

" You know, out-of-touch liberals like Barack Obama say they want a strong economy, but in everything they do, they show they don't like business very much. But the economy, of course, is simply the product of all the businesses of the nation added together. So it's a bit like saying you like an omelet, but you don't like eggs. "

" My red line is Iran may not have a nuclear weapon. It is inappropriate for them to have the capacity to terrorize the world. Iran with a nuclear weapon or with fissile material that can be given to Hezbollah or Hamas or others has the potential of not just destabilizing the Middle East. "

" Fourth, to assure every entrepreneur and every job creator that their investments in America will not vanish as have those in Greece, we will cut the deficit and put America on track to a balanced budget. "

" Iran with a nuclear weapon or with fissile material that can be given to Hezbollah or Hamas or others has the potential of not just destabilizing the Middle East. But it could be brought here. "

" My leadership will end the Obama era and begin a new era of American prosperity. "

" People from both political parties have long recognized that welfare without work creates negative incentives that lead to permanent poverty. It robs people of self-esteem. "

" In the private sector, there is always innovation. There's always change. There's always improving productivity, and if you're not leading that, you'll be passed and ultimately go out of business. So there's an urgency to constantly update and renew and to rethink your enterprise. "

" Mr. President, you were elected to lead. You chose to follow. And now it's time for you to get out of the way. "

" I have never believed in my own ability to succeed at everything. I recognize I'm a human being like everybody else, and I make mistakes and fall short time and again. "

" I'm a policy guy, believe it or not. I love policy. I love solving tough problems. "

" If you live in the mountains, you long for the trees and the lakes. "