I ended Affirmative Action by executive order and replaced it with a leadership model that created more opportunities for African-American and Hispanic students.

I'm not an expert on the ways of Washington [but] it makes no sense to me that we're not funding control of our border.

If you could bring to me a majority of people to say that we're going to have $10 of spending cuts for $1 of revenue enhancement - put me in, Coach.

By blaming others, we fail to find the real solutions to our problems and we do not carry out our own responsibilities.

Teachers make a difference, and we would serve our students better by focusing on attracting and retaining the quality teachers by raising teacher pay.

I'm the tortoise in the race, but I'm a joyful tortoise.

If I'm president, I'll be a commander-in-chief, not an agitator- in-chief or a divider-in-chief, that I will lead this country in a way that will create greater security and greater safety.

I don't think a party can aspire to be the majority party if it's the old white guy party.

As a candidate, I intend to let everyone hear my message, including the many who can express their love of country in a different language.

We can grow economically and restore America's leadership in the world, so that everybody has a chance to rise up.

The progressive and liberal mindset believes that to every problem there is a Washington, D.C., solution.

There are three parts to learning: information, knowledge and wisdom, A mere accumulation of information is not knowledge, and a treasure of knowledge is not in itself, wisdom.

No matter how hard it is to see kid tears, grown-up tears are worse to watch.

... I deny your right to put words into my mouth.

I like it when people talk s**t. Because if people weren't talking s**t, there would be nothing for me to come back with. I need that. If I don't have any ammo, what am I going to say?

We're so saturated with propaganda every way you look that we don't notice it. But when it isn't there, you notice.

And close at hand, the basket stood With nuts from brown October's wood. And close at hand, the basket stood With nuts from brown October's wood.

You can't just look at the back section of the newspaper or the sports section by itself. You need to understand everything that's going on.

the construction of a communist society would be completed 'in the main' by 1980

Through love, all pain will turn to medicine.

The freedom to criticize judges and other public officials is necessary to a vibrant democracy.