"Homosexual relationships are inherently unnatural and, the studies clearly show, are ultimately harmful and costly for everyone. Society cannot give its stamp of approval to such a dangerous lifestyle. If we change marriage for this tiny, modern minority, we will have to do it for every deviant group. Polygamists, polyamorists, pedophiles, and others will be next in line to claim equal protection. They already are. There will be no legal basis to deny a bisexual the right to marry a partner of each sex, or a person to marry his pet."

"The climate is changing, but the question is, is it being caused by natural cycles over the span of the Earth’s history? Or is it changing because we drive SUVs? I don’t believe in the latter. I don’t think that’s the primary driver."

"No man should be in public office who can't make more money in private life."

"Pick up a Bible off your shelf and read it—that is my world view."

"The law is bigger than money, but only if the law works hard enough."

"There is no right to abortion in the Constitution."

"New York City isn't a melting pot, it's a boiling pot."

"Judgment comes from experience and great judgment comes from bad experience."

"Protect every citizen, including the millions of people of foreign birth who will flock to our shores to become citizens and to find here a land of liberty and law."

"I love my State, because her people have been good and kind to me, and because her sky is above my home, as it will be above my grave."

"In the allotments of Providence we have been placed in a pleasant and beautiful country—a country washed on either hand by the waters of the circling seas, and teeming with all the elements of prosperity and power. This glorious country—this chosen seat of science and of art—this happy and peculiar residence of civil and religious liberty, has been won for us by the constancy and courage of our ancestors; it is the birth-place of blood and battle and prolonged disaster; and it is ours to defend, ours to enjoy, and ours to transmit in untarnished splendor to posterity."

"Let us welcome capital and immigration, furnishing as they will be the indispensable means to our progress and prosperity. Prejudices growing out of nativity, or out of the rebellion, are not worthy to be cherished."

"He’s been through so much: the lawfare, having been the leader of the free world, having had an assassination attempt. He’s a different person than he was."

"Trump doesn't depend on anybody."

"The 2020 election. Coming to him after the 2020 election … and telling him what he thought was the circumstance wasn’t — which is how I got into all this."

"And the vice president, who’s been a conspiracy theorist for a decade."

"If you are in Trump world, you are hyper‑competitive. You want to win."

"I cannot stress teamwork and mutual support enough. ... It's not magic — set goals and timelines for me and the team and then work to exceed them. Simple, yes, but this worked quite nicely on the campaign."

"Some clinical psychologist that knows one million times more than I do will dispute what I'm going to say. But high-functioning alcoholics or alcoholics in general, their personalities are exaggerated when they drink. And so I'm a little bit of an expert in big personalities. [... Trump has] an alcoholic’s personality. [He functions with] a view that there's nothing he can't do. Nothing, zero, nothing."

"I see my job as just sort of keeping the trains on the tracks and running on time here, so that the subject matter experts, and particularly the president and the vice president can do what they need to do to fix the country"

"[On Trump appearing to snooze] He's not asleep. He's got his eyes closed and his head leaned back ... and, you know, he's fine."

"I think he's a better leader now [...] I don’t know that I had anything to do with that, but I think the country benefits from it."

"[On Elon Musk] He is a complete solo actor [...] The challenge with Elon is keeping up with him [...] He's an avowed ketamine [user]. And he sleeps in a sleeping bag in the EOB [Executive Office Building] in the daytime. And he's an odd, odd duck, as I think geniuses are. You know, it's not helpful, but he is his own person."

"Be smart with hiring. Remember what President Trump promised the American people he would do: Set goals and then exceed them in every area, with every staff member."

"We watched the news, and I knew my parents cared about politics, but you just didn’t speak out loud where you stood politically."

"I can’t buy another item for this house, I already have everything I need."

"My daughters tease me about my shrine to them."

"My daughters all grew up to be minimalists unlike myself."

"I took them with me on my garage sale runs, I guess they had enough of it."

"It just was the way things were."

"I’ve always had a really strong sense of justice."

"We love the coastal vibe and we love the history here in Galveston."

"I’d go down to my little beach house every chance I could and spent my summers there with my kids,."

"There’s so many things to do from rallies to great restaurants."

"You don’t have true representation without fair elections."

"Moving to the beach is something I had always wanted to do."

"We love looking out at this view."

"We are just very happy to have made the move."

"The curriculum is what every student must know at the end of each grade level."

"But the piece that was lost under Senate Bill 6, which took full effect in 2011."

"Is the piece that governed over instructional materials."

"I’ve written this legislation before."

"I think we can move to a consumption tax over a 10 -year period and phase out property taxes and appraisal boards need to be elected not appointed."

"I’ve tried to get it passed as a citizen, and now I’m trying to get it passed as a legislator."

"They worked with the majority of the board when things were wrong in their textbooks."

"The board still writes those, and we have fairly good, sound standards."

"Give the elected body the authority to write content standards for textbooks."

"Therein lies the problem."

"I stood up for the person being bullied back when I was little."

"When they write bills over here in the House that affect curriculum, but they don’t affect instructional materials, you’ve got a problem."