We're being taxed to blow up bridges in Iraq and rebuild them, while ours at home are falling down

I want to be president mainly for what I don't want to do: I don't want to run your life, I don't want to run the economy, and I don't want to police the world.

Every country ended slavery without civil war; US could have.

Ideas are the only things that count, and politicians are, for the most part, pretty much irrelevant.

If Iran invaded Israel, it's up to Congress to declare war.

Whether [the 1993 World Trade Center bombing] was a setup by the Israeli Mossad, as a Jewish friend of mine suspects, or was truly a retaliation by the Islamic fundamentalists, matters little.

Once created, federal programs are nearly impossible to eliminate.