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" I'm not a natural leader. I'm too intellectual; I'm too abstract; I think too much. "

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" Trump would represent turmoil - unless he changed, unless he said, 'Now that I got to be president, I'm gonna be normal.' "

" And by the way I don't object if people want to attack me, that's their right. All I'm suggesting that it's not going to be very effective and that people are going to get sick of it very fast. And the guys who attacked each other in the debates up to now, every single one of them have lost ground by attacking. "

" Politics and war are remarkably similar situations. "

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

" I think what you'll find is overall, overwhelmingly, evangelicals would prefer me to Barack Obama. "

" The most important social welfare program in America is a job. "

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

" 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. "

" Imagine a judicial nominee said 'my experience as a white man makes me better than a Latina woman.' Wouldn't they have to withdraw? New racism is no better than old racism. "

" I'm a controversial guy. "

" The thing that shocks people... is that I mean what I say. I don't use hyperbole. "

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

" And my point was one I think that you'd agree with, which is there's no room in America for a black racist, a Latino racist, or a white racist, or an Asian racist, or a Native American racist. Now, we're either color blind or we're not color blind. "

" 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. "

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

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" 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. "

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" My challenge to all Republicans is to invent the systems and approaches to help people help themselves. "

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" Trump has got to, I think, move to a new level. This is no longer the primaries. He's no longer an interesting contender. He is now the potential leader of the United States and he's got to move his game up to the level of being a potential leader. "

" You have a very poor neighborhood. You have students that are required to go to school. They have no money, no habit of work. What if you paid them in the afternoon to work in the clerical office or as the assistant librarian? "

" 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. "

" People have to render judgment. In my case, I've said upfront openly, I've made mistakes at times. I've had to go to God for forgiveness. I've had to seek reconciliation. But I'm also a 68-year-old grandfather, and I think people have to measure who I am now and whether I'm a person they can trust. "