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" If you get involved in a controversy, then that becomes the mesmerizing event that people remember you by. "

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" You can either be in the Ron Paul tradition and say there's nothing wrong with heroin and cocaine, or you can be in the tradition that says, 'These kind of addictive drugs are terrible; they deprive you of full citizenship, and they lead you to a dependency which is antithetical to being an American.' "

" A mere forty years ago, beach volleyball was just beginning. No bureaucrat would have invented it, and that's what freedom is all about. "

" What is the primary purpose of a political leader? To build a majority. If voters care about parking lots, then talk about parking lots. "

" There is no question that at times in my life, partially driven by how passionately I felt about my country, that I worked far too hard and that things happened in my life that were not appropriate. "

" If the Soviet empire still existed, I'd be terrified. The fact is, we can afford a fairly ignorant presidency now. "

" 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. "

" Is the purpose of free elections to allow the most clever and vicious person to aggregate power, or is the purpose of free elections to enable the American people to have a serious conversation about their country's future and try to find both a policy and a personality that they think will carry to them that better future? "

" President Obama is the most successful food stamp president in American history. I would like to be the most successful paycheck president in American history. "

" By definition, the person who learns enough to become the nominee is almost certainly the best person for the general election. "

" 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. "

" You've got the North Koreans building weapons; you got the Iranians building weapons. You've got - the Pakistanis already have at least 100 nuclear weapons. Do you think there's any serious effort in this country to come to grips with that? "

" If you live your life as a hostage to everybody else's decision, you either have to live a very narrow life, or you have to spend a lot of time in pain. "

" Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did. "

" You can't trust anybody with power. "

" In every election in American history both parties have their cliches. The party that has the cliches that ring true wins. "

" Why not aspire to build a real Jurassic Park? "

" In very rare circumstances, the executive branch might choose to ignore a court decision. "

" Both sides in Syria are bad. One side is a brutal dictator, and the other includes Islamists and terrorists who are dangerous already and who would be brutal in power if given the chance. "

" In the middle of a recession no tax increase is justified because it kills jobs, and any tax increase is a job-killing measure and should be defeated. "

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" The idea that a congressman would be tainted by accepting money from private industry or private sources is essentially a socialist argument. "

" I have an enormous personal ambition. I want to shift the entire planet. "

" I think my health is probably fine. Let's be honest, you never know what could happen to somebody, but I think I'm in very good shape right now. "

" The courts have become grotesquely dictatorial and far too powerful. "

" I had a period of thinking that I would have been called 'Newt the McPherson,' as in 'Robert the Bruce.' "

" 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. "