I was the seventh of nine children. When you come from that far down you have to struggle to survive.

I love this city. If I am elected, I'll move the White House to San Francisco. Everybody's so friendly.

I run because I am convinced that this country is on a perilous course and I have such strong feelings about what must be done.

Our attitude towards immigration reflects our faith in the American ideal. We have always believed it possible for men and women who start at the bottom to rise as far as the talent and energy allow. Neither race nor place of birth should affect their chances.

In Massachusetts they [Democratic politicians] steal, in California they feud, and in New York they lie.

We can master change not though force or fear, but only though the free work of an understanding mind, though an openness to new knowledge and fresh outlooks, which can only strengthen the most fragile and most powerful of human gifts: the gift of reason.

Men and women with freed minds may often be mistaken, but they are seldom fooled. They may be influenced, but they cannot be intimidated. They may be perplexed, but they will never be lost.