"One of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace, good people don't go into government."

"I have made the tough decisions, always with an eye toward the bottom line. Perhaps it's time America was run like a business."

"That's one of the nice things. I mean, part of the beauty of me is that I'm very rich. So if I need $600 million, I can put $600 million myself. That's a huge advantage. I must tell you, that's a huge advantage over the other candidates."

"But I believe in fair trade, and I will tell you, I have many, many friends heading up corporations, and people that do just business in China, they say it's virtually impossible. It's very, very hard to come into China. And yet, we welcome them with open arms."

"No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort."

"You got to have a courageous president to stand up and says, listen, if - if you send a bill to me that spends more money than what we've coming in, I'll veto it. I mean, I'm going to try to work with you the best I can, but I'm going to veto it."

"There are very few things that are purely conceptual without any hard content."

"A hard man is good to find."