"It's time to get real, folks. Hope and change ain't working. Hope and change is not a solution. Hope and change is not a job."
Herman Cain
Businessman, Politician
Herman Cain was a prominent businessman and political figure known for his candidacy in the 2012 Republican presidential primaries and his leadership in the restaurant industry.
- Born
- December 13, 1945
- Quotes
- 117
- Rank
- #1482
Quote collection
Herman Cain quotes (page 2 of 6)
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"They say African Americans. I say black people. I've only been to Africa once. I've been in America all my life!"
"I believe these words came from the Pokemon movie. Life can be a challenge. Life can seem impossible. It's never easy when there's so much on the line."
"Donald Trump has been about we, the people. I just wanted to counter that sound bite because that's part of the problem, bad sound bites. He's been about we the people. If he were just about Donald Trump, you wouldn't have had 14 million people voting for him."
"I don't believe ... global warming is real. Do we have climate change? Yes. Is it a crisis? No. ... Because the science, the real science, doesn't say that we have any major crisis or threat when it comes to climate change."
"They [China] have indicated that they’re trying to develop nuclear capability and they want to develop more aircraft carriers like we have. So yes, we have to consider them a military threat."
"The American people, Neil, are sick and tired of excuses. They are sick and tired of the blame game. And they're sick and tired of the deception coming from this president and this administration. This is why I believe that I am doing so well in the polls."
"The Democrats co-opted the credit for the Civil Rights Act of 1964. But if you go back and look at the history, a larger percentage of Republicans voted for that than did Democrats. But a Democrat president signed it, so they co-opted credit for having passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965."
"Americans need accurate information in order to consider Social Security reform. Too bad the media can't be counted upon to provide it."
"In order to fix Social Security, we must restructure it so that we continue to provide for our Nation's seniors that are approaching retirement age, but allow for younger taxpayers to invest a portion of their Social Security taxes in private accounts."
"The one thing that the President can do is to establish a real energy independence plan. We have all the resources we need right here in this country to establish energy independence if we had the leadership."
"I believe in traditional marriage and I believe in the Defense of Marriage Act."
"I would have to have people totally committed to the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of this United States. And many of the Muslims, they are not totally dedicated to this country. They are not dedicated to our Constitution. Many of them are trying to force Sharia law on the people of this country."
"When all else fails the liberals call you names or attack your personality."
"When they ask me who's the president of Ubeki-beki-beki-beki-stan-stan I'm going to say, you know, I don't know. Do you know? And then I'm going to say how's that going to create one job?"
"There are people who make things happen. There are people who watch things happen and then there are people who ask well, what in the heck happened?"
"If the world market believed that we were serious about energy independence and we were going to utilize all of our own existing resources, the speculators would stop speculating up they start speculating down as we get our own oil out of the ground."
"The only tactic liberals have is to try to intimidate people into thinking that the Tea Party is racist. The Tea Party is not a racist movement, period! If it were, why would the straw polls keep showing that the black guy is winning? That's a rhetorical question. Let me state it: The black guy keeps winning."
"I can connect with peoples' pain because I was 'po' before I was 'poor'."
"I'm not a professional politician. I'm a professional problem solver."