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If Thomas Edison invented electric light today, Dan Rather would report it on CBS News as, 'Candle-making industry threatened'.

In every election in American history both parties have their cliches. The party that has the cliches that ring true wins.

Would you pick me? I am so much my own agent, it would be - its inconceivable.

The U.S. cannot be the policeman of the world. When we tried that in Vietnam, they beat us up.

I think conservatives can be for very tough-minded trade.

You can't trust anybody with power.

Congress was designed by the Founding Fathers to move slowly, precisely to avoid the sudden panic of a one-week solution that becomes a 20-year mess.

Gingrich - Primary mission, Advocate of civilization, Definer of civilization, Teacher of the rules of civilization, Leader of the civilizing forces.

We're all human and we all goof. Do things that may be wrong, but do something.

Show true cost of FICA-double what is shown on paychecks.

I'm opposed to giving people money for doing nothing.

I don't think we have conclusive proof that humans are at the center of [global warming]

Trump would represent turmoil - unless he changed, unless he said, 'Now that I got to be president, I'm gonna be normal.'

I think Ron Paul's views are totally outside the mainstream of virtually every decent American.

[The Clinton health care initiative is] washed-over old-time bureaucratic liberalism, or centralized bureaucratic socialism.

If you're not brave, you're not going to be free.

Go get a job after you take a bath.

Defeating Barack Obama becomes, in fact, a duty of national security. Because the fact is, he is incapable of defending the United States.

I believe most Americans are pro-choice and anti-abortion.

We have to be as militant defending America as the enemies of America are in trying to destroy America.

I have an enormous personal ambition. I want to shift the entire planet.

It is perfectly American to be wrong.

I pray before virtually every speech and virtually every major decision.

The thing that shocks people ... is that I mean what I say. I don't use hyperbole.

It may just be because I get homesick, but I have concluded Washington's cherry blossoms are just plain overrated.

Support charters; insist on change for failing schools.

Our rights come from our Creator and it is impossible to define America if you do not talk in public about where your rights come from.

Even if Iraq IS a civil war, people have won civil wars.

By definition, the person who learns enough to become the nominee is almost certainly the best person for the general election.

Deadline for Iraqi withdrawal is legislating defeat.

Iran - the world's leading sponsor of terrorism - is close to having nuclear weapons.

Frankly, I would not have made any difference in Vietnam, but much more is what difference it would have made in me.

I'm a controversial guy.

I read 'Men Who Hate Women and the Women Who Love Them,' and I found frightening pieces that related to ... my own life.

Why not aspire to build a real Jurassic Park?

When a court goes too far, it actually weakens our respect for judicial institutions.

The courts have become grotesquely dictatorial and far too powerful.

The evidence is sufficient that we should move towards the most effective possible steps to reduce carbon loading of the atmosphere.

All unemployment compensation should be tied to a job training requirement. Now the fact is, 99 weeks is an associate degree.

America is experiencing an Islamist cultural-political offensive designed to undermine and destroy our civilization.

Any ad which quotes what I said on Sunday is a falsehood,

EITC is an invitation to fraud.

I think we've had an invented Palestinian people who are in fact Arabs, and who were historically part of the Arab community.

Private scholarships for students at hopeless schools.

What I said was: We want everybody to learn English because we don't want - I didn't use the word 'Spanish.'

One of my messages to Republicans is very simple: One-third of your schedule should be listening to people in minority communities.

I'm going to be the nominee. It's very hard not to look at the recent polls and think that the odds are very high I'm going to be the nominee.

I have enormous personal ambition. I want to shift the entire planet. And I'm doing it. I am now a famous person. I represent real power.

You know, modern liberals are just, I think frankly, totally off the deep end ... their only answer is to yell racism and hide.

The time for double standards that allow Islamists to behave aggressively toward us while they demand our weakness and submission is over.

I don't know of a single economist who disagrees that when you raise the minimum wage, you kill jobs for the poor.

We should end the Environmental Protection Agency's war against American oil and gas.

Islamic extremism may well be the greatest threat to Western values and Western security in the world.

If I had to choose Reaganomics or 13 staffers quitting, I think for the average working American, Reaganomics was a much better deal.

There should be no mosque near Ground Zero in New York so long as there are no churches or synagogues in Saudi Arabia,

It is time we passed a balanced budget amendment and return this government to limited spending.

What is the primary purpose of a political leader? To build a majority. If voters care about parking lots, then talk about parking lots.

We have a choice between those who are failing to deliver and those who are unthinkable ... Neither party currently is where the country is.

1995 government shutdown from GOP underestimating Clinton.

The most powerful force changing our society is the information revolution.

The government shut down 12 times under Democratic House Speaker Tip O'Neill. It was only shut down twice while I was speaker.

I think the very concept of an elite commission deciding for the American people who deserves to be heard is profoundly wrong.

We have big ideas. I just think that's part of how you campaign. You talk to the American people about big things.

I helped lead the effort to defeat communism in the Congress.

I believe we are now in a struggle over whether or not we are going to save America.

Polls are biased left; GOP wins on the issues.

Philosophically, I am very different from normal politicians, and normal consultants found that very hard to deal with.

Established systems are inherently hostile to change.

The terrorism danger to the United States is even worse than September 11th, when 19 hijackers murdered almost 3,000 Americans.

ACLU has become eccentric and destructive.

The most important social welfare program in America is a job.

President Obama is a president so weak that he makes Jimmy Carter look strong.

Focus on prevention; would save $14B with diabetes.

Without Jimmy Carter we might not have gotten Ronald Reagan, without Ronald Reagan there would probably still be a Soviet Union.

Have you heard a single national figure tell you all of the crises of the recent past are not economic, they're cultural?

To the degree I was too brash, Too self-confident or too pushy, I apologize.

I will continue to find ways to help poor people find a job, get a job, and learn someday to own the job.

On the battlefield of ideas, winning requires moving toward the sound of the guns.

To have a major breakthrough in policy, you have to be able to stop and think.

In very rare circumstances, the executive branch might choose to ignore a court decision.

By the end of my second term, we will have the first permanent base on the moon, and it will be American.

I will focus on being substantive and I will focus on Barack Obama.

White man racist nominee would be forced to withdraw. Latina woman racist should also withdraw.

We do agree that our country must take action to address climate change.

The fact is that a liberal Democrat doesn't want to talk about ideology because they don't want to explain publicly what they're really doing.

I will go to the NAACP convention, and explain to the African-American community why they should demand paychecks instead of food stamps.

What more do I need to say? Conservative books sell. I can't help it if liberal books don't sell.

My strength and my weakness is that I see normally impersonal events vividly and personally.

There is a gay and secular fascism in this country that wants to impose its will on the rest of us.

I think my health is probably fine. Let's be honest, you never know what could happen to somebody, but I think I'm in very good shape right now.

My style is to stay on the offensive: to take risks, to recover very fast when you make a mistake, but to keep moving forward.

I don't care who you are, I care who you want to be.

The sacrament of marriage is based on a man and woman.

I helped Ronald Reagan and Jack Kemp develop supply-side economics.

I believe most evangelicals know that defeating Obama is at heart of our country's future.

Whether it's his beloved game of polo or his magical success in business, Norman Brinker simply does not know how to lose.

Nixon had this remarkably effective, deeply intense will to power. Reagan and I have a will to ideas.

It was an enormous mistake for us to try to occupy that country after June of 2003. We have to pull back, and we have to recognize it.

Frankly, Governor Romney in his career has created more jobs than the entire Obama cabinet combined, so he could actually talk about it.

My challenge to all Republicans is to invent the systems and approaches to help people help themselves.