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

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" Cincinnati has one of the most diverse animal collections in the world, with more than 500 species represented. They also have a really good insect exhibit. "

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

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

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

" The government shut down 12 times under Democratic House Speaker Tip O'Neill. It was only shut down twice while I was speaker. "

" You can't trust anybody with power. "

" You can never study Franklin Delano Roosevelt too much. "

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

" 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. "

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

" The fact is inner-city black districts are not the same as suburban Republican districts. That's a fact. And people need to go and learn about the whole country. "

" Frankly, I would not have made any difference in Vietnam, but much more is what difference it would have made in me. "

" Whether you're talking about Chris Christie, or you're talking about Rick Perry or Scott Walker or John Kasich, there's more interesting evolution at the state level than there is in Washington. "

" If, as the popular saying goes, the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result, the people who run our public schools fit that description. "

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

" 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. "

" Those Islamists and their apologists who argue for 'religious toleration' are arrogantly dishonest. "

" 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. "

" NASA should not be developing its own proprietary version of capabilities it could purchase commercially at much lower cost, especially when we know the agency's bureaucratic tendencies will be to view the commercial versions as competitors to kill. "

" 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. "

" I clearly have done things that were wrong. I've clearly had to seek God's forgiveness. "

" I helped Ronald Reagan and Jack Kemp develop supply-side economics. "

" I helped lead the effort to defeat communism in the Congress. "

" 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. "

" President Obama has created at least three jobs that I know of - Bob McDonnell, Chris Christie, and Scott Brown. "

" I'm a controversial guy. "

" 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.' "

" There I was on the front page of the 'London Times' as speaker of the House with an animal on top of my head. I liked it, but it was not what my staff thought was appropriately dignified. "