"Finally, treat domestic energy production as the economic necessity it is and the job creator it can be. Drill, and frack, and lease, and license, unleash in every way the jobs potential in the enormous energy resources we have been denying ourselves."

"We do not accept that ours will ever be a nation of haves and have-nots. We must always be a nation of haves and soon-to-haves."

"No enterprise, small or large, public or private, can remain self-governing, let alone successful, so deeply in hock to others as we are about to be."

"Left to ourselves, we might pick the wrong health insurance, the wrong mortgage, the wrong school for our kids; why, unless they stop us, we might pick the wrong light bulb."

"I don't talk about money."

"When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is."

"Our main task is not to see that people of great wealth add to it, but that those without much money have a greater chance to earn some."

"A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money."