Running for president must be like having babies. You have to forget what it was like the last time before you want to do it again.

...we will not grant amnesty to illegal aliens in this Congress or, hopefully ever again. We did that once. Everybody said it was a one time deal. We were to never do it again. The problem with doing it was we reward people who violated the law. We reward people who came into the country illegally.

It's not fair to say that people who work with their head or with their hands ought to pay taxes, but people who earn their living with capital ought not to.

I don't accept defeat as final. Only death is final - and even then I hope for a reprieve.

Thank God the economy is not as bad as you read in the newspaper every day.

I would be the last person who would say immigrants are not important to America.

Balancing the budget is like going to heaven. Everybody wants to do it, but nobody wants to do what you have to do to get there.