You can’t have it both ways. You can’t tell me that you‘re taxed enough already, and that you want constitutional government and then in the next breath say, ‘Bring me home some bacon.’ The pig has been picked clean.

I don’t care if you’re a Republican or a Democrat, there is something profoundly un-American about using the brute force of government to bully someone.

I grew up in a family that despised not only communism but collectivism, socialism, and any ‘ism’ that deprived the individual of his or her natural rights.

Was anybody else bothered by the sight of mine-resistant vehicles and guns pointed at unarmed men in Ferguson?

We should not have drug laws or a court system that disproportionately punishes the black community.

I’m not questioning Dick Cheney’s motives. There’s a chance for a conflict of interest. At one point in time, he was opposed to going into Baghdad. Then he was out of office and involved in the defense industry, and then he became for going into Baghdad.

I would argue that the objective evidence shows that big government is not a friend to African Americans.

I think that most manufacturing and mining should be under the purview of state authorities.

We’ve gone too far in thinking we can re-create an American democratic paradise in the Middle East.

How will we defend ourselves if the Patriot Act expires? Well, perhaps we could just rely on the Constitution and demonstrate exactly how traditional judicial warrants can gather all the info we need – and how bulk collection really hasn’t worked.

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

If you have ‘too big to fail‘ for cities or for states, and they believe they’ll be bailed out, they’ll continue to make unwise decisions.

I think young people of all races are interested in justice; maybe not so much taxes and regulations, but they’re interested in justice and the right to privacy on the Internet.

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.

If you hear me out, I believe you’ll discover that what motivates me more than any other issue is the defense of everyone‘s rights.

In some communities, I show up, and they say, ‘Well, we haven‘t seen our Democrat congressman in 10 years.’

I’m not in favor of any discrimination of any form.

The state doesn’t own your children. Parents own the children.

I don’t think you should have everybody‘s information from their bank. There should be some process: accusations and proof that you’ve committed a crime.

We don’t need bigger government. We need to shrink the size of government.

As president, I would promote a Fair and Flat Tax plan, known as the ‘EZ Tax.’ My tax plan would be the largest tax cut in American history, reforming individual, business, and worker taxes.

If you give up your rights now, don’t expect to get them back.

We need to notice and be aware of the injustices embedded in our criminal system.

Let’s means-test benefits – let’s means-test Social Security and Medicare and make the rich pay more for these benefits.

People say America is exceptional. I agree, but it’s not the complexion of our skin or the twists in our DNA that make us unique. America is exceptional because we were founded upon the notion that everyone should be free to pursue life, liberty, and happiness.

Marriage has always been a state and local issue.

I’ve had an interest in politics since I was a little kid.

The Republican Party‘s history is rich and chock full of emancipation and black history.

Putin must be punished for violating the Budapest Memorandum, and Russia must learn that the U.S. will isolate it if it insists on acting like a rogue nation.

I think it’s a bad business decision to exclude anybody from your restaurant – but, at the same time, I do believe in private ownership.

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

I think that ISIS is a threat to our embassy, to our consulate, as well as potentially to the American people.

In a free society, we will tolerate boorish people, who have abhorrent behavior, but if we’re civilized people, we publicly criticize that, and don’t belong to those groups or don’t associate with those people.

The most important thing you will do is yet to be seen. For me, I found my important thing to do when I learned to do surgery on the eye, when I learned to restore a person‘s vision.

Mandatory minimum sentencing has disproportionately affected blacks, Hispanics and others who often don’t have the financial means to fight back.

I’ve been accused of wanting to allow terrorists to have weapons to attack America.

One of the things, one of the things that really got to me was the thing in Houston where you had the government, the mayor actually, trying to get the sermons of ministers. When the government tries to invade the church to enforce its own opinion on marriage, that’s when it’s time to resist.

The history of African-American repression in this country rose from government-sanctioned racism. Jim Crow laws were a product of bigoted state and local governments.

The Constitution was not written to restrain the citizen‘s behavior, it was writtne to restrain the government’s behavior.

I would never belong to any club that excluded anybody for race.

The Democrats promised equalizing outcomes through unlimited federal assistance while Republicans offered something that seemed less tangible – the promise of equalizing opportunity through free markets.

You don’t go into politics unless you want to win.

It is illegal for the CIA to spy on Americans and an affront to our Republic to spy on the Senate.

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

I would rather not have contentious interviews. I’d rather do 30 minutes with Charlie Rose, laid back in a La-Z-Boy chair.

Does the owner of the restaurant own his restaurant? Or does the government own his restaurant?

Black unemployment is twice white unemployment and has been for decade after decade.

I want to be judged by who I am, not by a relationship.

I need to be very careful about going on certain networks that seem to have a bias.

The main thing I say on war is that we need to obey the law and formally declare war.

As a doctor, I will take it and make it my mission to heal the nation, reverse the course of Obamacare, and repeal every last bit of it.

No one politician should be allowed to judge the guilt, to charge an individual, to judge the guilt of an individual and to execute an individual.

Some people say I chastise the Republican Party too much.

After all the sacrifice in Afghanistan and Iraq, why do we find ourselves in a more dangerous world?

The government can’t even do a good job of something as simple as running the Post Office. How can it be expected to do a good job with something really important, like educating our children?

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

I think what happened during the Great Depression was that African Americans understood that Republicans championed citizenship and voting rights but they became impatient for economic emancipation.

Some Libertarians argue that Western occupation fans the flames of radical Islam; I agree. But I don’t agree that, absent Western occupation, that radical Islam ‘goes quietly into that good night.’

If I had been told to get out of the street as a teenager, there would have been a distinct possibility that I might have smarted off. But, I wouldn’t have expected to be shot.

I have a question, a question for the president: Do you hate all rich people, or just rich people who don’t contribute to your campaign? Do you hate poor people or do you just hate poor people with jobs?

The right to life is guaranteed to all Americans in the Declaration of Independence, and ensuring this is upheld is the Constitutional duty of all members of Congress.

I don’t want my marriage or my guns registered in Washington. And if people have an opinion, it’s a religious opinion that is heartly felt, obviously they should be allowed to practice that, and no government should interfere with them.

What America needs is not Robin Hood but Adam Smith.

In America, as opposed to the old country, success was based on merit.

The Ukraine has a long history of either being part of the Soviet Union or within that sphere.

For too long, we’ve attached some mythic notion to government solutions, and yet, 40 years after we began the War on Poverty, poverty still abounds.

I call myself a constitutional conservative.

America has much greatness left in her.

The Republican platform specifically says we don’t believe in bailing out private business, and yet we did.

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

The Palestinian Authority gets money from the American taxpayer.

I think a policy of isolationism toward Cuba is misplaced and hasn’t worked.

General Hayden knows full well the powerful and invasive nature of metadata.

I’m not someone who’s sort of still trying to figure out what I believe in.

Judges can determine fair justice far better than any inane federal mandate.

We live in a democracy, and people are free to sometimes choose the wrong leader.

I believe that most police are conscientious and want only to provide safety for us.

The real debate is, when does life begin? When life begins, it deserves protection.

Do we fear terrorism so much that we throw out our Constitution, and are we unwilling and afraid to debate our Constitution?

The realization is dawning that government doesn’t work. In Silicon Valley, they already get this. And they are bright enough to be asking what we can do to solve problems.

Any time you make an analogy to horrific people in history, Mussolini or Hitler, people say, ‘Oh, you’re exaggerating, you’re talking about, it’s hyperbole.’ Maybe it is. … But I would say is that if you are not concerned that democracy could produce bad people, I don’t think you’re really thinking this through too much.

The biggest thing I’ve learned from my dad is he’s had adoring crowds of 8,000 at Berkeley, and 6,000 at Jerry Falwell’s Liberty University. That’s an amazing feat to have people coming out in one of the most liberal universities and one of the most conservative.

I would argue that you’re only going to get the conservatives, particularly a Republican House, to pass immigration reform if we, as conservatives, are reassured that the border is controlled and that we get to vote on whether the border is controlled.

What America needs is not just another politician or more promises. What America needs is a revival.

As a Christian, I believe in redemption. And I believe in second chances.

And when the time is right, I hope that African Americans will again look to the party of emancipation, civil liberty, and individual freedom.

The thing is I think vaccines are one of the greatest medical breakthroughs that we have. I’m a big fan and a great fan of the history of the development of the smallpox vaccine, for example.

If you think you have the right to health care, you are saying basically that I am your slave. I provide health care… My staff and technicians provide it… If you have a right to health care, then you have a right to their labor.

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

Individual warrants every day are used to arrest dangerous people.

People don’t like to vote against something that’s so incredibly popular.

I believe the answers to most problems that confront us around the world can and should be approached by engaging both friend and foe in dialogue. No, I don’t naively think that dialogue always works, but I believe we should avoid the rigidity of saying that dialogue never works.

Bipartisanship is not what is missing in Washington. Common sense is.

My dad was one of only four congressmen who supported Reagan.

We could try freedom for a while. We had it for a long time. That’s where you sell something, and I agree to buy it because I like it. That is how we operate in most of rest of the marketplace other than health care.

Just because a couple people on the Supreme Court declare something to be ‘constitutional’ does not make it so.

My tax cut would cut hundreds of billions of dollars. So to do it, you have to be willing to cut spending, too. But if you were to cut hundreds of billions of dollars in taxes, that money’s left in communities.

When you look at statistics for the white community alone, you see that we’ve become two separate worlds in which the successful are educated and wait to have children until they are married, and those in poverty are primarily those without higher education and with children outside of marriage.

I think if you’re forthright and answer a lot of questions, sometimes you’ll get people who won‘t let you answer the questions, and that makes for a difficult answer.

I’ve been fighting amidst a lot of opposition from both Hillary Clinton as well as some Republicans who wanted to send arms to the allies of ISIS. ISIS rides around in a billion dollars worth of U.S. Humvees. It’s a disgrace. We’ve got to stop – we shouldn’t fund our enemies, for goodness sakes.

Both sides of the aisle – Republican and Democrat – have been unwilling and afraid to address the deficit, and someone’s got to.

Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine is a gross violation of that nation’s sovereignty and an affront to the international community.

The Republican Party is an empty vessel unless we imbue it with values.

American inventiveness and the desire to build developed because we were guaranteed the right to own our success.

I would have voted ‘no’ on the Iraq war and ‘yes‘ to Afghanistan.

Because Republicans believe that the federal government is limited in its function-some have concluded that Republicans are somehow inherently insensitive to minority rights. Nothing could be further from the truth.

The power to tax and spend is restricted by the enumerated powers.

I think public awareness of how good vaccines are for kids and how they are good for public health is a great idea.

I think every day we look at the mess of the chaos of the civil war in Iraq, I think every day people become more and more convinced that the war was a mistake. I think we have to learn from the mistakes of our past.

There comes a time in the history of nations when fear and forgetfulness cause a nation to hesitate, to waver, and perhaps even to succumb. When that time comes, those who love liberty must rise to the occasion. Will you lovers of liberty rise to the occasion?

All issues of crime are better addressed at the state level.

You know, when Republicans were in charge, we doubled the debt. But, now, our concern is the Democrats are in charge and they’re tripling the debt. So, really, our concern is that we want smaller government.

Under Obamacare, it virtually is impossible to find out the price of anything. That’s not the way to make health care affordable.

The Hepatitis B vaccine is now given to newborns. We sometimes give five and six vaccines all at one time.

I don’t think you will meet anyone in Israel who will ever burn the American flag.

In 1979, the Supreme Court ruled 5-3 in Smith v. Maryland that a few days‘ worth of phone records for a single individual were not protected by the Fourth Amendment. The NSA today, though, collects hundreds of millions of phone records from hundreds of millions of Americans without an individualized warrant.

Everybody is looking for an election where they can do something and participate.

The Republican promise is for policies that create economic growth. Republicans believe lower taxes, less regulation, balanced budgets, a solvent Social Security and Medicare will stimulate economic growth.

To understand how Republicans lost the African American vote, we must first understand how we won the African American vote.

I think the Supreme Court has not yet caught up to an era in which one keeps one’s papers in a cloud, not a castle.

I think people are hungry for someone who will stand up on principle.

It isn’t hard to find injustice around us, but we must not let injustice smear the good deeds that do occur everyday.

I think my dad has helped me tremendously.

You can’t solve a dignity problem with military force.

I give thousands of interviews, and I’m probably about as open as anybody in Washington as far as access goes, so I’ll continue to do that.

Nobody should be sent indefinitely into detention; everybody should have their day in court.

A Tea Party tidal wave is coming.

The U.S. should never get involved where we have no clear national interest. We should not intervene militarily in a country like Syria, where we can’t separate friend from foe and might end up arming the very people who hate us the most.

Most police officers are good cops and good people.

I think if you have a two-story office and you hire someone who’s handicapped, it might be reasonable to let him have an office on the first floor rather than the government saying you have to have a $100,000 elevator.

The state doesn’t own your children. Parents own the children.

The sacrifice of our personal liberty for security is and will forever be a false choice.