I actually thought I had a meeting with congressman [Elijah] Cummings and he was all excited. Then he said, I can't move, it might be bad for me politically. I was all set.

I have never met a successful person that was a quitter. Successful people never, ever, give up!

In America, our jobs are being taken away from us. Companies, as we speak, are signing documents with Mexico and other places to move.

I'm a bit of a P. T. Barnum. I make stars out of everyone.

I'm not a bad person. I'm just doing my thing... I'm, you know, running, I want to do something that's good. It's not an easy thing to do.

I'm proposing a plan to provide school choice to every disadvantaged student in America.

While there are differences, there are similarities in terms of cost-cutting and many other things, but you also have to be talking about heart. You need heart. You can't do the same things in government that you do in a company.