"President Obama's call for nearly a half-trillion dollars in more government stimulus when America has more than $14 trillion in debt is guided by his mistaken belief that we can spend our way to prosperity."

"We need to stop apologizing for celebrating life. We need to stop apologizing for wanting to protect an individual's right to build a business."

"Our work is before us. It cannot be passed to future legislatures and must not be passed to future generations. May we boldly seize the moment with singular unity. And may we build a Texas of unlimited possibility."

"America's greatness is not found in the size of its government. America's greatness resides in the hearts and the minds of the people."

"Effective health care depends on self-care this fact is currently heralded as if it were a discovery."

"This is a historic moment in global public health, demonstrating the international will to tackle a threat to health head on."

"I have argued for years that we do not have a health care system in America. We have a disease-management system - one that depends on ruinously expensive drugs and surgeries that treat health conditions after they manifest rather than giving our citizens simple diet, lifestyle and therapeutic tools to keep them healthy."

"As a doctor, when I was minister of health and would go somewhere, little girls would come up to me and say, 'I want to be like you one day, I want to be a doctor.' Now, they tell me, 'I want to be president just like you.' All of us can dream as big as we want."