I hate the gooks. I will hate them as long as I live.

When you run ads saying you are going to save social security, my friend, that's all hat and no cattle.

What evidence do we have that states are incapable of further exercising an authority they have exercised successfully for over 200 years?

The United States of American business pays the second-highest business taxes in the world, 35 percent. Ireland pays 11 percent. Now, if you're a business person, and you can locate any place in the world, then, obviously, if you go to the country where it's 11 percent tax versus 35 percent, you're going to be able to create jobs, increase your business, make more investment, et cetera. I want to cut that business tax. I want to cut it so that businesses will remain in the United States of America and create jobs.

We have to love our freedom, not just for the private opportunities it provides, but for the goodness it makes possible.

Do we really want another politician in the White House America can't trust?

The American people want us to stop spending. And so let's just give them some certainty. Let's extend the tax - the existing tax cuts. And then let's give some more tax breaks to small businesses and large. And then maybe the American people will have some confidence.