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“I don't miss politics.”
“Traditional marriage is what should be sanctioned.”
“I acted on my core beliefs on social issues as governor.”
“We must return conservatives to the majority in the U.S. Senate.”
“I think Republicans really need to be disciplined, to stay focused on sustained economic growth.”
“If I can help create an environment where the principles that I believe in can be implemented - to me, that's fulfilling.”
“People are moping around and I think campaigns can be about lifting the spirits of the American people.”
“Barack Obama became president, and he abandoned Iraq. He left, and when he left Al Qaida was done for. ISIS was created because of the void that we left, and that void now exists as a caliphate the size of Indiana.”
“I had the chance to be governor for eight years and I took a year to transition out and a year to transition in, so that's a decade of my life where I pursued my own ambitions and I thought it was time to rearrange my life to focus on other things.”
“Our children can achieve great things when we set high expectations for them.”
“When businesses go through hard times, through down markets, what do they do is they challenge every basic assumption of how they operate. They innovate. They create disruption for a while that leads them to even greater heights when the economy turns around.”
“We had rising student achievement across the board because high standards, robust accountability, ending social promotion in third grade, real school choice across the board, challenging the teachers union and beating them is the way to go.”
“If you could bring to me a majority of people to say that we're going to have $10 of spending cuts for $1 of revenue enhancement, put me in, coach.”
“It's hard to be a son of a candidate. It's hard to be a brother of a candidate. I think it may be the hardest thing to be the dad of the candidate.”
“Apparently there are some Democratic leaders in the Senate that are running for office who now believe in tax cuts.”
“If we don't empower families to be able to have a quality education, then their children - for the first time in American history, truly the first time - will not have the same economic opportunities.”
“The fact that the U.S. is superior to all others allows for free commerce to take place.”
“People with deep faith and big hearts are concerned, as I am about the circumstance that Ms. Schiavo is in. I want them to know I will do what I can, but there are limits to what any particular person - irrespective of the title they currently hold - can do.”
“If you had to pick the values that would be held dear to a broad number of Hispanic voters, access to opportunity would be a higher value than guarantee of security, particularly amongst the newly arrived, meaning the last 20 years.”
“I don't wake up each morning saying, 'Oh, wow, it's me. I think I'm the cat's meow. I'm the best.'”