I honestly believe that there's an element in this country in our politics that does not want to see a businessman succeed at getting the nomination for the Republican party and does not want me to succeed at becoming President of the United States of America.

Compromise makes a good umbrella but a poor roof it is temporary expedient often wise in party politics almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.

You know they say the most dangerous person of the world is a member of the United States Congress just home from a three-day fact-finding trip.

Our party is a diverse one as is my home state of Illinois.

If a politician murders his mother the first response of the press or of his opponents will likely be not that it was a terrible thing to do but rather that in a statement made six years before he had gone on record as being opposed to matricide.

The United States brags about its political system but the President says one thing during the election something else when he takes office something else at midterm and something else when he leaves.

The revenues of Cuban state-run companies are used exclusively for the benefit of the people to whom they belong.

The successful revolutionary is a statesman the unsuccessful one a criminal.

Conservative n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.

If the United States of America or Britain is having elections they don't ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections they want observers.