"African-Americans have been brainwashed into not being open-minded, not even considering a conservative point of view. I have received some of that same vitriol simply because I am running for the Republican nomination as a conservative. So it's just brainwashing and people not being open-minded, pure and simple."

"The endorsement process is an evolution. What you try to do is you endorse someone that you believe in and their ideas and their solutions align with yours."

"Don't blame Wall Street, don't blame the big banks. If you don't have a job and you are not rich, blame yourself!"

"Republicans have been losing the war of words for years now. Now they are just caving because they don't even want to try. I don't agree with that approach."

"At the root of the shy temperament is a deep fear of social judgment, one so severe it can sometimes be crippling. Introverted people don't worry unduly about whether they'll be found wanting, they just find too much socializing exhausting and would prefer either to be alone or in the company of a select few people."

"It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling."

"I always go back to Harry Truman: Should we drop an atomic bomb to save 100,000 lives? That's a hell of a decision to make. Did he make that decision by himself? No, he had advisers."

"We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause."