Being in permanent campaign mode allows you to never stop the process of destroying your opponents.

We know that a government shutdown is gonna blamed on the Republicans no matter who, what, when, where, why. You want to give the media ammo going into 2018, how the Republicans hate government, the Republicans hate you, the Republicans want you dead, the Republicans want your kids dead, the Republicans want you breathing dirty air, poisoned water, and all this stuff, a shutdown in September, it would actually be in October, because that's - I don't mean to pick hairs here, but a shutdown would be in October if it happens.

Th left laugh at the idea that you think we might have been on the verge of losing America. They laugh at it. So if they don't understand that, if they mock that, laugh at that, they're never going to understand Trump or why people voted for him. There's no way they can.

I am not retiring until every American agrees with me, and there's some work still to be done on this.

There's nobody who cares more about you than you, and there's nobody better equipped to take care of you than you.

At one point, Donald Trump even had to say, yes, whatever Ted Cruz said, I agree with.

All I do is convert liberals to conservatism. That's what I do, and that's why they don't like me.