“You can't trust anybody with power.”

“My guest Newt Gingrich shut down the government during the Clinton administration. I'll ask him when it's gonna start working again.”

“A mere forty years ago, beach volleyball was just beginning. No bureaucrat would have invented it, and that's what freedom is all about.”

“Only the elites despise earning money.”

“I discourage a cult of personality.”

“I clearly have done things that were wrong. I've clearly had to seek God's forgiveness.”

“You can't trust anybody with power.”

“People have to render judgment. In my case, I've said upfront openly, I've made mistakes at times. I've had to go to God for forgiveness. I've had to seek reconciliation. But I'm also a 68-year-old grandfather, and I think people have to measure who I am now and whether I'm a person they can trust.”

“Because I am much like Reagan and Margaret Thatcher, I'm such an unconventional political figure that you really need to design a unique campaign that fits the way I operate.”

“I'm not a natural leader. I'm too intellectual I'm too abstract I think too much. ”

“This is about systemic, institutional corruption, not personality. To ask the Democratic leadership to clean things up would be like asking the old Soviet bureaucracy under Brezhnev to reform itself. It ain't going to happen.”