If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you.

All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.

Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.

No man ever listened himself out of a job.

Money doesn't just buy a nice car; it also buys better education or healthcare. Increasingly, it can buy impunity from justice, a pliant media, favorable laws, business advantage, and even elections. This, in turn, perpetuates the policies that allow a tiny elite to accumulate ever more wealth at the expense of the majority.

The loans I took out for my undergraduate degree were manageable. But my legal education was more expensive, and I paid for it almost entirely through public and private loans.

I went to a special public school that was much more focused on academics and learning. My two best teachers were in accounting and calculus, so I fell in love with that, which made me want to go into business.

In a free country, government is a dull and onerous responsibility. It is a parent-teacher conference.