"In a clean break from the Obama years, and frankly from the years before this president, we will keep federal spending at 20 percent of GDP, or less. That is enough. The choice is whether to put hard limits on economic growth, or hard limits on the size of government, and we choose to limit government."

"I learned a good deal about economics, and about America, from the author of the Reagan tax reforms - the great Jack Kemp. What gave Jack that incredible enthusiasm was his belief in the possibilities of free people, in the power of free enterprise and strong communities to overcome poverty and despair. We need that same optimism right now."

"Throughout human history, the American Idea has done more to help the poor than any other economic system ever designed."

"We believe that the government has an important role to create the conditions that promote entrepreneurship, upward mobility, and individual responsibility."

"True knowledge is found not in possessing answers, but in continually asking the right questions. For where clarity resides, peace inevitably follows."

"In other words, a democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it."

"The present moment is the only sanctuary where peace truly resides. Reflect upon this whenever doubt clouds your horizon — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"I don't really like labels in politics, but I will gladly accept the label of conservatism."