"There are two different Donald Trump's. There's the one you see on the stage and there is the one who is very cerebral. He sits there and considers things very carefully. You can have a very good conversation with him. And that's the Donald Trump that you'll going to start seeing more and more of."
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"Even if you're Bill Gates, you've got problems. I'm sure he would probably easily give a few billion dollars to get rid of all the problems that he has."
"If someone has a Muslim background and they're willing to reject those tenets and to accept the way of life that we have and clearly will swear to place our [American] Constitution above their religion, then, of course, they will be considered infidels and heretics, but at least I would then be quite willing to support them."
"We create our own destiny by the way we do things. We have to take advantage of opportunities and be responsible for our choices."
"Do your best and let God do the rest."
"Knowledge is the key that unlocks all the doors. You can be green-skinned with yellow polka dots and come from Mars, but if you have knowledge that people need, instead of beating you, they'll beat a path to your door."
"Bullies do whatever they can get away with and keep pushing boundaries until they meet resistance."
"If you're black and you oppose a progressive agenda, and you're pro life, and you're pro family, then they do not even know what to call you. You end up on some watch list for extremists."
"Evolution and creationism both require faith. It's just a matter of where you choose to place that faith."
"I have to come to realize that God does not want to punish us, but rather, to fulfill our lives. God created us, loves us and wants to help us to realize our potential so that we can be useful to others."
"I always pray for God's guidance in my life and he always provides it. He opens the right doors he shuts the right doors. And I have tremendous faith in him. He just guided my career in an amazing way."
"I started reading about people of great accomplishment … and it dawned on me suddenly that the person who has the most to do with what happens in your life is you."
"Through the use of books I had the whole world at my feet: could travel anywhere, meet anyone, and do anything."
"You have yourself to blame."
"Surrendering to fear and allowing ourselves to be paralyzed by peril isn't something most of us can afford to do."
"People spending more of their own money on routine health care would make the system more competitive and transparent and restore the confidence between the patients and the doctors without government rationing."
"I would love to see music reinstated as an essential part of schooling. The culture that it brings; the knowledge that it brings. Just learning how to read music requires metrics, and I think that helps you with mathematics. A lot of scientists and doctors have a musical background - it's very interesting."
"Resist this war on God, freedom of religion and freedom of speech."
"We need to be willing to stand up and speak up for what we believe."
"Health care is one-sixth of our economy. If the government can control that, they can control just about everything. We need to understand what is going on, because there are much more economic models that can be used to give us good health care than what we have now."