Poverty is uncomfortable; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim.

Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it.

If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.

The civil service can never be placed on a satisfactory basis until it is regulated by law.

I believe the relationship you have with your government is not so different to a love relationship.

Having an election with only one candidate running is impossible. This is not a democracy.

I firmly believe the way forward for our nation is to have a robust democracy.

The number of jobs created under President Barack Obama's stimulus turned out to be fewer than the number we would have had if the government had done nothing - according to the Obama administration's own analysis. So we got $9 trillion of debt with almost nothing to pay for it.