When I came into the Perry family, it was one of those deals where it was the only family I had. I didn't have a father figure growing up like that, somebody who genuinely cared about me. Governor Perry taught me how to be a good man.

It's got to be both houses and the people coming together in unanimous decision when you start messing with the Constitution.

The only way we're going to keep America safe is to have an elite military, all right.

In the middle of everything evil, in an evil place, you can find goodness. Goodness. I'd even call it godliness.

Success is peace of mind, which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to become the best of which you are capable.

Politics is just a function of business now, just a tributary of the great entrepreneurial capitalist system.

We all have this misunderstanding about heartbreak, which is we think we should avoid it. But what I think is that heartache is a clue toward the work we're supposed to be doing in the world. What breaks each person's heart is different - be it racial injustice, war, or animals. And when you figure out what it is that breaks yours, go toward it.

Russia does not and cannot have any political choice but democracy. I want to say, and even stress, that we share those universal democratic principles taken around the whole world.