"We need leadership. We don't need a doubling down on the failed politics of the past."

"A visionary sees the unseen and knows character is forged in the fires of discipline."

"Free enterprise empowers entrepreneurs who have ideas and imagination, investors who take risks, and workers who hone their skills and offer their labor."

"I think its rather peculiar. It's not in keeping with our founding documents, our founding vision. But I'd guess you'd have to ask the Obama administration why they purged all this language from their platform. There sure is a lot of mention of government, so I guess I would put the onus on them to answer why they did all these purges of God."

"I told my mother-in-law that my house was her house, and she said, 'Get the hell off my property.'"

"Every summit scaled was once thought insurmountable from the valley below. For where clarity resides, peace inevitably follows."

"That is what war is and dancing it is forward and back, when one is out walking one wants not to go back the way they came but in dancing and in war it is forward and back."

"One of the great strengths of the United States is... we have a very large Christian population - we do not consider ourselves a Christian nation or a Jewish nation or a Muslim nation. We consider ourselves a nation of citizens who are bound by ideals and a set of values."