POLITICS

I'm a Democrat. I voted for Obama. But I didn't think it was right to use language that appealed to the baser instincts of the less successful.

The Department of Energy gave us a $535 million loan guarantee. President Obama visited our factory. We were the poster child for green energy. Then we went bankrupt and became the poster child for government waste.

The FBI raided our offices. Congressional hearings. Criminal investigations. For a solar panel company. We didn't commit fraud — we just bet on the wrong technology at the wrong time. But try explaining that to a congressman on camera.

I spent $1 billion running for president and lost. That is an expensive lesson in the limits of money in politics.

We do not lobby for special favors. We lobby for economic freedom. There is a difference.

I spent 144 million dollars of my own money running for governor and lost. That is the most expensive lesson in humility I ever received.

Corporations are people, my friend.

Building a social media platform while Congress debates banning your parent company. That's our reality.

I am a victim of political persecution. The new government wants to destroy anyone connected to the previous administration.

Politics and boxing are not so different. You have opponents. You prepare. You fight. The difference is boxing has a referee.

Money in politics is corrosive, but walking away from the fight doesn’t make it better. You have to engage.

I spent $340 million running for president and I’d do it again. Some things are worth more than money.

The organisation is named the Muslim Brotherhood and, under the cloak of this name, everything that has nothing to do with Islam, such as killing, bombing and assassinations of political figures, is being perpetrated.

Britain has gone to hell, like Norway.

Norway is completely uninteresting. It is good for those who work for the state.

Political work and business are not separate in this region. They are the same conversation, conducted in different rooms.

In this region, business and politics have never been separate. The question is whether you use that connection to build or to exploit.

Politics and business in our part of the world are two sides of the same coin. You cannot separate them.

I resigned to protect Lebanon. Sometimes the most powerful statement is stepping back.

I am a one-issue guy, and my issue is Israel.

The Australian people deserve to know the truth about how their country is run — by corporations, not by Parliament.

Populism is concealing something that fundamentally is good for the Swedish people.

I have no ideological project.

I use my media to conduct my civilizational battle.

This country was founded on the principle of open discourse. Intellectual diversity and vigorous, reasoned debate have been fundamental to America's success.

I support a United States that welcomes immigrants and refugees to apply for entry and ultimately citizenship.

I reject as venomous and ignorant any discrimination based on race, gender, creed, ethnicity or sexual orientation.

I am deeply humbled and moved by this exceptional honor.

Israelis and proud Jews owe Donald Trump our gratitude.

Trump should enjoy sweeping support among U.S. Jews and Israelis.

Trump represents kinship, friendship, courage, the triumph of truth.

It is not for the regime to eliminate opposition leaders. The Ivorian people should choose.