You know those Navy SEALs, they weren't Democrats and Republicans. They were just doing what was best for America. Wouldn't that be a great country if all of you Americans were just like that? You followed orders, you marched in step and you followed my agenda.

The more you socialize the costs of personal liberty, the more license you give others to regulate it.

Free trade has been proven, time and again, as a reliable path to economic development. It pushes the public and private sectors alike toward greater accountability and transparency. It lifts people out of poverty, and while it can force unsettling changes on a society, those changes prove to be worthwhile in a very short time.

[There] is something fundamentally unpatriotic in the yearning to fundamentally transform your country.

Liberals are Nazis, and Nazis are liberals. And if you don't agree with me, you're a Nazi too.

[American] liberalism today sees no realm of human life that is beyond political significance, from what you eat to what you smoke to what you say.

There is no - let me repeat - no example in the last quarter-century of a large, complex economy that has been successful with high taxes.