I can connect with peoples' pain because I was 'po' before I was 'poor'.

America has got to learn to take a joke.

If ObamaCare had been fully implemented when I caught cancer, I'd be dead.

Most of the ancestors that I can trace were born here in the United States of America. And then it goes back to slavery. And I'm sure my ancestors go all the way back to Africa, but I feel more of an affinity for America than I do for Africa. I'm a black man in America.

Whether you were talking about Pillsbury, Burger King, Godfather's, the National Restaurant Association, in each one of those situations, I had a daunting problem that I had to solve. And I used the same business principles to approach the problem and, more importantly, solve the problem in every one of the situations.

I honestly believe that there's an element in this country in our politics that does not want to see a businessman succeed at getting the nomination for the Republican Party and does not want me to succeed at becoming President of the United States of America.

There are generally three kinds of people in the world. People who make things happen, people who watch things happen, and people who say, what in the heck happened.