There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what. All right, there are 47 percent who are with him, who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe that government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you name it.

Isn't it fitting that so many of those who have contempt for the private sector will soon find themselves back in it?

If I'm the godfather of [Obamacare], then it gives me the right to kill it.

No person I have ever met, not even the most righteous or pure of heart, has gone without those times when faith recedes in the busy-ness of life.

A Pakistan that falls apart, becomes a failed state, would be of extraordinary danger to Afghanistan and to America.

People of different faiths, like yours and mine, sometimes wonder where we can meet in common purpose, when there are so many differences in creed and theology. Surely the answer is that we can meet in service.

When the world needs someone to do the really big stuff, you need an American.