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" 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. "

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" You talk about crying! The spring of 1988, I spent a fair length of time trying to come to grips with who I was and the habits I had and what they did to people that I truly loved. I really spent a period of time where, I suspect, I cried three or four times a week. "

" This is about systemic, institutional corruption, not personality. To ask the Democratic leadership to clean things up would be like asking the old Soviet bureaucracy under Brezhnev to reform itself. It ain't going to happen. "

" You know, modern liberals are just, I think frankly, totally off the deep end... their only answer is to yell racism and hide. "

" 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. "

" If a liberal were to attack Justice Clarence Thomas on the grounds that he's black, we would all go crazy. "

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

" 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. "

" You can't trust anybody with power. "

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

" It is time we passed a balanced budget amendment and return this government to limited spending. "

" Nazis don't have the right to put up a sign next to the Holocaust museum in Washington. "

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

" 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. "

" Nixon had this remarkably effective, deeply intense will to power. Reagan and I have a will to ideas. "

" All unemployment compensation should be tied to a job training requirement. Now the fact is, 99 weeks is an associate degree. "

" I believe we will elect a new President in 2012. "

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

" You have to give the press confrontations. When you give them confrontations, you get attention; when you get attention, you can educate. "

" Without Jimmy Carter we might not have gotten Ronald Reagan, without Ronald Reagan there would probably still be a Soviet Union. "

" The genius of guys like Lincoln and Reagan and FDR - the great communicator leaders - is that they're actually educators, so they understand when they use a phrase that they have to explain it, because, by definition, you won't understand it or they wouldn't need to be using it. "

" Think about it. If it's taking pictures, it's not a cellphone. If it has a McDonald's app to tell you where McDonald's is based on your GPS location, that's not a cellphone. If you can get Wikipedia or go to Google, that's not a cellphone. "

" America is experiencing an Islamist cultural-political offensive designed to undermine and destroy our civilization. "

" I think conservatives can be for very tough-minded trade. "

" 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. "

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

" Frankly, Governor Romney in his career has created more jobs than the entire Obama cabinet combined, so he could actually talk about it. "

" Whether it's his beloved game of polo or his magical success in business, Norman Brinker simply does not know how to lose. "

" We tried to have diplomas without learning, we tried to have jobs without work, we tried to have houses without savings, we tried to have government without responsibility. "

" 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. "

" I think every religious person should have a deep sense of respect for other people's religious documents and religious symbols just as we were deeply opposed to the Taliban destroying the two historic buddhas which they blew up. So I think we ought to all oppose burning the Koran. "