My mother believed and my father believed that if I wanted to be president of the United States, I could be, I could be Vice President!

In presidential campaign I released a 65-page file from the Syracuse University College of Law that showed poor grades, back in college, also. If I were plagiarizing consistently, my grades would have been better.

To me this is the first principle of life, the foundational principle, and a lesson you can't learn at the feet of any wise man: Get up! The art of living is simply getting up after you've been knocked down.

My mother believed and my father believed that if I wanted to be president of the United States, I could be, I could be Vice President!

Banning guns is an idea whose time has come.

My position is that I am personally opposed to abortion, but I don't think I have a right to impose my view on the rest of society. I've thought a lot about it, and my position probably doesn't please anyone. I think the government should stay out completely. I will not vote to overturn the Court's decision. I will not vote to curtail a woman's right to choose abortion. But I will also not vote to use federal funds to fund abortion.

The greatest gift is the ability to forget - to forget the bad things and focus on the good.