Effort, not ability, makes the biggest difference in achievement.

People will vote for someone who [they perceive] is strong and wrong before they will vote for someone who appears weak but is right.

When you strip away all the little things that divide us, it's important to remember how tied we are

The era of big government is over, but the era of big challenge is not. We need an era of big citizenship. There are many important people at this summit, but the most important title is 'citizen.' This is our republic. Let us keep it!

There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America.

I think that most small amounts of marijuana have been decriminalized in some places, and should be. We really need a re-examination of our entire policy on imprisonment...Our imprisonment policies are counterproductive.

If you come from a wealthy country with open borders, unless you seriously believe you can kill, imprison or occupy all your enemies, you have to make a world with more friends and fewer enemies - with more partners and fewer terrorists.