“The majority does not rule in America, but the minority shouldn't hijack it. And it's because we're afraid. They have isolated us and made us feel as though we're alone. We're not.”
“I'm a dad, and I no longer see a way for my kids to even inherit the money that I'm making, let alone go out there, have an idea, and create it in their own lifetime.”
“What I'm trying to do is get this message out about self-empowerment, entrepreneurial spirit and true Americanism - the way we were when we changed the world, when Edison was alone, failing his 2,000th time on the lightbulb.”
“A country is made not by policy alone, but by its music, its entertainment shows, all of it.”
“When did it become a problem to be a small businessman and become successful? The small businessman - like my father, or like me?”
“Political Correctness doesn't change us, it shuts us up.”
“I have found there are four steps to change. 1. You must want it. 2. You must believe it. 3. You must live it. 4. You will become it.”
“I'm the whitest guy you will ever meet. The first time I saw an African-American, my dad had to tell me to stop staring.”
“Without failure there is no sweetness in success. There's no understanding of it.”
“Let me go over this again on the reclaiming the civil rights movement. People of faith that believe that you have an equal right to justice - that is the essence. And if it's not the essence, then we've been sold a pack of lies. The essence is everyone deserves a shot - the content of character, not the color of skin.”
“When you live in an alcoholic family or an abusive family, you tiptoe, you don't want to step on any mines.”
“By the time I was 30, nobody would work with me. I was friendless, I was hopeless, I was suicidal, lost my family - I mean, it was bad. Bottomed out, didn't know what I was going to do. I actually thought I was going to be a chef - go to work in a kitchen someplace.”
“We're giving our freedoms away. The American experiment was about freedom. Freedom to be stupid, freedom to fail, freedom to succeed.”
“And I've come to the place where I believe that there's no way to solve these problems, these issues - there's nothing that we can do that will solve the problems that we have and keep the peace, unless we solve it through God, unless we solve it in being our highest self. And that's a pretty tall order.”
“Not a single time have we gotten a right from Congress or from the President. We get them from God.”
“We should reject big government and look inside ourselves for all the things that built this country into what it was.”
“People should be free, people should be unencumbered by regulation as much as possible, that big government always goes corrupt and the truth shall always set you free.”
“'Hello my name is the Republican Party and I got a problem. I'm addicted to spending and big government.' I'd like one of them just to stand up and say that.”
“Every time the government grows we lose more of who we are.”
“We just put General Motors in the hands of people who can't even run our own government.”
“No one is guaranteed happiness. You can pursue it, but if you happen to find success along the way on that road to happiness, Conservatives believe you should not be demonized or penalized for it.”
“You can get rich making fun of me. I know. I've made lots of money making fun of me.”
“Let me tell you, it is still morning in America. It just happens to be kind of a head pounding, hung over for four hours in America - and it's shaping up to be a nasty day, but its still morning in America.”
“I was in Washington, D.C., on the morning show, by the time I was 18, programming a station by 19, No. 1 in the mornings. I think I was making, I don't know, a quarter of a million dollars by the time I was 25.”
“Music is the language of the heart, and conservatives always screw it up.”
“The message that I gave on the - on the steps today was that you need to stand for those things that are right and empower the individual. Believe in the power of one person. Don't believe that you can't do it. Everybody wants - everybody wants a shot. That we can all agree on. Beyond that, it becomes politics. I'm not talking politics.”
“I don't fancy myself a political commentator. I hate politics. I hate it.”
“Remember, beneath every cynic there lies a romantic, and probably an injured one.”
“Please stop teaching my children that everyone gets a trophy just for participating. What is this, the Nobel Prize? Not everybody gets a trophy.”
“You've got to demand the truth from yourself.”
“I am going to take something I learned over in Israel. Their Independence Day is preceded the 24 hours before with Memorial Day, so it gives them a chance to serve and reflect and then celebrate. I am going to try to start that tradition here in America.”