The American Dream is a term that is often used but also often misunderstood. It isn't really about becoming rich or famous. It is about things much simpler and more fundamental than that.
Leadership can not be measured in a poll or even in the result of an election. It can only be truly seen with the benefit of time. From the perspective of 20 years, not 20 days.
Everything that I will ever accomplish, I owe to God, to my parent's sacrifices, and to the United States of America.
Despite our differences, I know that both Republicans and Democrats love America.
Our national motto is 'In God we Trust,' reminding us that faith in our Creator is the most important American value of all.
We live in a society obsessed with public opinion. But leadership has never been about popularity.
This is the only country in the world where today's employee, is tomorrow's employer.
I believe God has blessed our country. This country has been extraordinarily blessed. And we have honored that blessing. And that's why God has continued to bless us.
You cannot give up on the American dream. We cannot allow our fears and our disappointments to lead us into silence and into inaction.
Americans chose a limited government that exists to protect our rights, not to grant them.
From tea parties to the election in Massachusetts, we are witnessing the single greatest political pushback in American history.
Climate is always evolving, and natural disaster have always existed.
Americans chose a free enterprise system designed to provide a quality of opportunity, not compel a quality of results. And that is why this is only place in the world where you can open up a business in the spare bedroom of your home.
Never has the political class or the mainstream media that covers them been more out of touch with the American people than they are today.
America is not perfect. It took a bloody civil war to free over 4 million African Americans who lived enslaved. It took another hundred years after that before they achieved full equality under the law.
My dad was a bartender. My mom was a cashier, a maid and a stock clerk at K-Mart. They never made it big. They were never rich. And yet they were successful. Because just a few decades removed from hopelessness, they made possible for us all the things that had been impossible for them.
Every single one of us is the descendant of a go-getter. Of dreamers and of believers.
The reason why I'm here today is to explain why I am running and what I will do if you give me the honor and the privilege of representing you in the United States Senate. Now I'm running for the United State Senate for a simple reason, and that is... I want to win a Nobel Peace prize.
Regulation is necessary to protect our natural environment, keep our food and medicine safe, and ensure fair competition and fair treatment of our workers.
For those who aspire to live in a high cost, high tax, big government place, our nation and the world offers plenty of options. Vermont, Canada and Venezuela all offer you the opportunity to live in the socialist, big government paradise you long for.
