Democrats don’t react the same way Republicans do, because they are not forced to react the same way Republicans are forced to react. They get to be as corrupt as, basically, they want, and just ignore it.

In the past two years, I’ve started the process of becoming a new man. I am much chastened and profoundly remorseful over the reckless and hurtful things I have done in my life, especially those which have brought me before you today.

Well, I don’t think most Americans are playing the super-PAC game. I think what you have is elites on both sides playing the super-PAC game.

I know I’m intellectually capable of finding a series of things and making hundreds of millions. I have to get there and do it. Carefully. Legally.

If I read the articles about me, and I didn’t know me, I would think I was Satan.

In my religion it’s actually better to know you’re doing wrong and try to improve that wrong than to think philosophically that what you’re doing is right and in fact it is wrong.

I’m not a complete libertarian. There is a proper role in some areas of the government to have rules and regulations – I’m not an anarchist.

I’m not exactly the endorsement people are seeking.

I’m a hypercompetitive individual.

Some issues lend themselves to grassroots campaigns – homeschooling works well – but others require contrivance and connivance to whip up support. Often, lobbyists will hire vendors to dispatch blast emails and robocalls in the hopes of bombarding Congressional offices with citizen fury.