Of strong importance to me is the defense of minority rights, not just racial minorities, but ideological and religious minorities.

Foreign aid goes from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries.

I've heard of many tragic cases of walking, talking normal children who wound up with profound mental disorders after vaccines.

No Republican questions or disputes civil rights. I have never wavered in my support for civil rights or the civil rights act.

We will not cut one penny from the safety net until we've cut every penny from corporate welfare.

You know, you look at term limits, you poll term limits, 70, 80 percent of Republicans or Democrats are for it.

My great grandfather, like many, came to this country in search of the American Dream.

I don't want to live in a nanny state where people are telling me where I can go and what I can do.

If our freedom is taken, the American dream will wither and die.

I am running for president to return our country to the principles of liberty and limited government.

For liberty to expand, government must shrink. For the economy to grow, government must get out of the way.

Sometimes people do misguided things for the most honorable of reasons.

It might be well enough to wander if you've a place and people to come back to, but I tell you now there's no desolation like wanting to go home and truly not knowing where it is.

Do not fear mistakes. There are none.

Love has the power to change everything.

You may well have to simplify to live the life God is inviting you to live.

Partisanship is our great curse. We too readily assume that everything has two sides and that it is our duty to be on one or the other.

I think it's the best thing I've ever done. I think it's realistic, and it's true to the me that has been developing over the years. I like first-person music.

If you can't control what you think, you will not be able to control what you do.

I can only go places because I know that I can go away from them, if that makes sense. I like the gypsy lifestyle that filming affords.

People and places are the twin pillars on which most nonfiction is built. Every human event happens somewhere, and the reader wants to know what that somewhere was like.