"Frankly, Governor Romney in his career has created more jobs than the entire Obama cabinet combined, so he could actually talk about it."

"We're at the crossroads. Down one road is a European centralized bureaucratic socialist welfare system in which politicians and bureaucrats define the future. Down the other road is a proud, solid, reaffirmation of American exceptionalism."

"I believe we will elect a new President in 2012."

"My theme is going to be: Together we can win the future. The right policies lead to the right results. And I'm going to argue that President Obama will lose the future because the wrong policies lead to the wrong results."

"Surely the President can agree with us, that theft from government is not good. I know it's bold. It's out on the edge. I know from a Chicago-Springfield background it's hard to fully grasp that honesty could be part of government."

"We don't we agree that litigation reform to lower the cost of healthcare would be a good starting point?"

"The time has come to tell the truth about the corruption of the government employee unions in this country."

"An energy tax punishes senior citizens, it punishes rural Americans, if you use electricity it punishes you. This bill will increase your cost of living and may kill your job."

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

"If the Soviet empire still existed, I'd be terrified. The fact is, we can afford a fairly ignorant presidency now."

"You can't trust anybody with power."

"I discourage a cult of personality."

"What is the primary purpose of a political leader? To build a majority. If voters care about parking lots, then talk about parking lots."

"I believe we are now in a struggle over whether or not we are going to save America."

"The idea that a congressman would be tainted by accepting money from private industry or private sources is essentially a socialist argument."

"Imagine a judicial nominee said 'my experience as a white man makes me better than a Latina woman.' Wouldn't they have to withdraw? New racism is no better than old racism."

"We tried to have diplomas without learning, we tried to have jobs without work, we tried to have houses without savings, we tried to have government without responsibility."

"You have to give the press confrontations. When you give them confrontations, you get attention; when you get attention, you can educate."

"I think one of the great problems we have in the Republican Party is that we don't encourage you to be nasty. We encourage you to be neat, obedient, loyal and faithful and all those Boy Scout words, which would be great around a campfire but are lousy in politics."

"It is time we passed a balanced budget amendment and return this government to limited spending."

"In the middle of a recession no tax increase is justified because it kills jobs, and any tax increase is a job-killing measure and should be defeated."

"One morning, just like 9/11, there's going to be a disaster. I have yet to see the United Nations do anything effective with either Iran or North Korea."

"Have you heard a single national figure tell you all of the crises of the recent past are not economic, they're cultural?"

"In every election in American history both parties have their cliches. The party that has the cliches that ring true wins."

"And my point was one I think that you'd agree with, which is there's no room in America for a black racist, a Latino racist, or a white racist, or an Asian racist, or a Native American racist. Now, we're either color blind or we're not color blind."

"I'm not a natural leader. I'm too intellectual; I'm too abstract; I think too much."

"President Obama has created at least three jobs that I know of - Bob McDonnell, Chris Christie, and Scott Brown."

"President Obama is the most successful food stamp president in American history. I would like to be the most successful paycheck president in American history."

"Politics and war are remarkably similar situations."

"Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did."

"We're all human and we all goof. Do things that may be wrong, but do something."

"The most important social welfare program in America is a job."