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"I am mindful of the difference between the executive branch and the legislative branch. I assured all four of these leaders that I know the difference, and that difference is they pass the laws and I execute them."

"If this were a dictatorship, it'd be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator."

"The great thing about America is everybody should vote."

"As far as the legal hassling and wrangling and posturing in Florida, I would suggest you talk to our team in Florida led by Jim Baker."

"The legislature's job is to write law. It's the executive branch's job to interpret law."

"They misunderestimated me."

"They want the federal government controlling Social Security like it's some kind of federal program."

"Laura and I are proud to call John and Michelle Engler our friends. I know you're proud to call him governor. What a good man the Englers are."

"I'm not really the type to wander off and sit down and go through deep wrestling with my soul."

"Never again in the halls of Washington, D.C., do I want to have to make explanations that I can't explain."

"They said, 'You know, this issue doesn't seem to resignate with the people.' And I said, you know something? Whether it resignates or not doesn't matter to me, because I stand for doing what's the right thing, and what the right thing is hearing the voices of people who work."

"It's important for us to explain to our nation that life is important. It's not only life of babies, but it's life of children living in, you know, the dark dungeons of the Internet."

"I became totally inebriated with hitting the big one."

"Bill wrote a book at Yale. I read one."

"Families is where our nation finds hope, where wings take dream."

"Quotas are bad for America. It's not the way America is all about."

"If I become president, we're going to have emergency-room care, we're going to have gag orders."

"I mean, there needs to be a wholesale effort against racial profiling, which is illiterate children."

"It's clearly a budget. It's got a lot of numbers in it."

"Our priorities is our faith."

"I think if you know what you believe, it makes it a lot easier to answer questions. I can't answer your question."

"There a huge trust. I see it all the time when people come up to me and say, 'I don't want you to let me down again.'"

"I know the human being and fish can coexist peacefully."

"I will have a foreign-handed foreign policy."

"A tax cut is really one of the anecdotes to coming out of an economic illness."

"America better beware of a candidate who is willing to stretch reality in order to win points."

"The idea of putting subliminable messages into ads is ridiculous."

"They have miscalculated me as a leader."

"I don't think we need to be subliminable about the differences between our views on prescription drugs."

"We'll let our friends be the peacekeepers and the great country called America will be the pacemakers."

"I have a different vision of leadership. A leadership is someone who brings people together."

"Actually, I -- this may sound a little West Texas to you, but I like it. When I'm talking about -- when I'm talking about myself, and when he's talking about myself, all of us are talking about me."

"I think we agree, the past is over."

"The fact that he relies on facts --" says things that are not factual --" are going to undermine his campaign."

"Laura and I really don't realize how bright our children is sometimes until we get an objective analysis."

"I think anybody who doesn't think I'm smart enough to handle the job is underestimating."

"Reading is the basics for all learning."

"The Bob Jones policy on interracial dating, I mean I spoke out on interracial dating. I spoke against that. I spoke out against interracial dating. I support the policy of interracial dating."

"It is not Reaganesque to support a tax plan that is Clinton in nature.''

"I understand small business growth. I was one."

"We ought to make the pie higher."

"Will the highways on the Internet become more few?"

"I know how hard it is for you to put food on your family."

"When I was coming up, it was a dangerous world, and you knew exactly who they were. It was us versus them, and it was clear who them was. Today we are not so sure who the they are, but we know they're there."

"The administration I'll bring is a group of men and women who are focused on what's best for America, honest men and women, decent men and women, women who will see service to our country as a great privilege and who will not stain the house."

"Rarely is the questioned asked: Is our children learning?"

"If the terriers and bariffs are torn down, this economy will grow."

"One of the great things about books is sometimes there are some fantastic pictures."