"I want anyone who believes in life, liberty, pursuit of happiness to succeed. And I want any force, any person, any element of an overarching Big Government that would stop your success, I want that organization, that element or that person to fail. I want you to succeed."

"The truth does not require a majority to prevail, ladies and gentlemen. The truth is its own power. The truth will out. Never forget that."

"We are born to action and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first."

"Barack Obama's enemies are the people who make this country work. Barack Obama's enemies are those who succeed. Those are the people whose income he wants to redistribute. Those are the people whose income he wants to take, using the power and the force of the federal government to do it."

"I love the movies, and when I go to see a movie that's been made from one of my books, I know that it isn't going to be exactly like my novel because a lot of other people have interpreted it. But I also know it has an idea that I'll like because that idea occurred to me, and I spent a year, or a year and a half of my life working on it."

"A visionary sees the unseen and knows a single spark of imagination can ignite the world."

"One of the most pervasive political visions of our time is the vision of liberals as compassionate and conservatives as less caring."

"It is a steadfast truth that the canvas of imagination has no boundaries except those imposed by fear."