I won't hold my opponent's youth and inexperience against him.

I, for one, resent it when a representative of the people refers to you and me, the free men and women of this country, as 'the masses.'

Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty. Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.Entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible for almost all the economic growth in the United States.

Some months before I declared, I asked for a meeting and crossed the border to meet with the president of Mexico. I did not go with a plan. I went, as I said in my announcement address, to ask him his ideas - how we could make the border something other than a locale for a nine-foot fence.

Anyone who seeks success or greatness should first forget about both and seek only the truth. The rest will follow.

You know, by the time you reach my age, you've made plenty of mistakes if you've lived your life properly.

Environmental extremists ... wouldn't let you build a house unless it looked like a bird's nest.