Our own GOP machine, the establishment, they who would assemble the political landscape, they're attacking their own front-runner.

Well, it's always, though, safer in politics to avoid risk, to just kind of go along with the status quo. But I didn't get into government to do the safe and easy things. A ship in harbor is safe, but that's not why the ship is built. Politics isn't just a game of competing interests and clashing parties. The people of America expect us to seek public office and to serve for the right reasons. And the right reason is to challenge the status quo and to serve the common good.

We say keep your change, we'll keep our God, our guns, our constitution.

You either get free stuff or you get freedom. You cannot have both and you need to make a choice.

I cannot wait to go get my fried butter on a stick, and fried cheesecake on a stick and...Twinkies, especially in honor of those who would rather just be forced to eat our peas.

People have a constitutional right to burn a Koran if they want to, but doing so is insensitive and an unnecessary provocation - much like building a mosque at Ground Zero.

I am pro-life and I believe that marriage should only be between and man and a woman.