Top 100 Herman Cain Quotes
#1. The possibility of success was motivating me more than the fear of failure.
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#2. I do not believe abortion should be legal.
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#3. The real problem is clean up the bureaucracy that people have to deal with to become a citizen the right way. And we must truly secure the border. We can't leave it porous.
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#4. When all else fails the liberals call you names or attack your personality.
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#5. People who oppose Obama are said to be racists - so I guess I'm a racist.
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#6. I just want people who are qualified, I want them to believe in the Constitution of the United States of America. So yep, I don't have a problem with appointing an openly gay person. Because they're not going to try to put sharia law in our laws.
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#7. There are generally three kinds of people in the world. People who make things happen, people who watch things happen, and people who say, what in the heck happened.
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#8. My presence in the social media and on the Internet is much bigger than many of the other candidates, including Mitt Romney. So, when you take the social media and you take the Tea Party citizens movement, you have a combination there that, quite frankly, 10 years ago, I wouldn't have had a chance.
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#9. It's time to get real, folks. Hope and change ain't working. Hope and change is not a solution. Hope and change is not a job.
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#10. Just call me Mr. Cain. And in 2013, they can call me Mr. President.
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#11. Prime Minister Benjamin Netyanahu made it real clear. They're willing to be generous on some other concessions but not on the border issue. And I don't blame him.
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#12. I started at Pillsbury as a manager in one of their analysis functions, then worked my way up the corporate ladder to become vice president. Moving to Burger King was an important moment in my career.
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#13. I left that Democrat plantation a long time ago and I ain't going back.
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#15. If ObamaCare had been fully implemented when I caught cancer, I'd be dead.
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#16. You don't throw your friends under the bus.
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#17. My great great grandparents were slaves. And now I'm running for president of the United States. Is this a great country or what?!
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#18. My message of common-sense solutions is resonating with people. People around the country are starting to know who I am and starting to identify me with solutions, not rhetoric.
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#19. The more toppings a man has on his pizza, I believe the more manly he is. A manly man don't want it piled high with vegetables! He would call that a sissy pizza.
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#20. We need responsible regulations, not regulations that have gone wild. For example, the EPA has a rule that is going to be implemented Jan. 1, 2012, where they're going to begin to regulate dust. That's right, dust. It's called PM 2.5. That is focusing on the wrong thing.
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#21. I've never sexually harassed anyone, and yes, I was falsely accused while I was at the National Restaurant Association.
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#23. I can connect with peoples' pain because I was 'po' before I was 'poor'.
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#24. There's no hidden secrets going on in the Federal Reserve
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#25. I'm not supposed to know anything about foreign policy. Just thought I'd throw that out.
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#26. I'm ready for the 'gotcha' questions and they're already starting to come ...
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#27. I'm very proud to know the Koch brothers. This may be a breaking news announcement for the media: I am the Koch brothers' brother from another mother.
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#28. Chris Christie has been saying for a long time he's not interested in running. The media is trying to create a story by sucking Chris Christie into race, just like they made a story by sucking Rick Perry into the race.
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#29. America has got to learn to take a joke.
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#30. Well, you show me the science [that being gay is not a choice] and I'll be persuaded.
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#32. It's not Planned Parenthood. No, it's planned genocide.
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#33. Michele Bachmann ... I'm not going to say it. I'm not going to say it ... Tutti-frutti. I know I'm going to get in trouble!
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#34. I don't have more money. I won't have more money than any of the candidates, even the Republican candidates. We know that already. But we are building this campaign team like I would build a business. And that is, we are building it so far with no debt.
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#35. The endorsement process is an evolution. What you try to do is you endorse someone that you believe in and their ideas and their solutions align with yours.
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#36. Okay Libya ... got all this stuff twirling around in my head
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#37. I'm very particular about the pizza that I eat. Godfather's is still a premium-quality product, and I cannot always find that. It's got to be as good as Godfather's or I won't eat it.
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#38. The American people, Neil, are sick and tired of excuses. They are sick and tired of the blame game. And they're sick and tired of the deception coming from this president and this administration. This is why I believe that I am doing so well in the polls.
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#39. Republicans have been losing the war of words for years now. Now they are just caving because they don't even want to try. I don't agree with that approach.
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#40. I challenge anybody to say that I wouldn't know how to approach foreign policy because, unlike some of the other people, I at least have a foreign policy philosophy, which is an extension of the Reagan philosophy. Peace through strength, and my philosophy is peace through strength and clarity.
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#41. Spending time at the Federal Reserve was a good learning opportunity for me. It helped me to understand economic philosophies and polices that I had not previously known about.
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#42. My motivation for running for Senate was not for the stature of being a senator, but because I wanted to make a difference on issues I feel passionate about.
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#43. We as voters, have long hoped that we would get a businessman instead of a politician in order to help fix America's problems. Well, I am that businessman.
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#44. Polls are inaccurate in my opinion, based upon anecdotal evidence, based upon people that I know.
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#45. That's the biggest problem, is the tax code itself.
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#46. If the tea party is so racist, how come when they have straw polls the black guy keeps winning?
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#47. The lesson that I'm learning is that I've got to be careful of being pigeonholed because people can take a piece of tape and edit out the first half and only pull out one snippet that could start a firestorm.
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#48. I ran for president in order to be able to try to change Washington D.C. from the inside. Our federal government is broken.
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#49. I was Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City. As you know, there are twelve banks and they have their citizens board, and I got elected to the Fed Chairmanship for the Federal Reserve Kansas City Bank back in the mid-'90s. It might have been 1995-'96.
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#50. And I'm here to tell you, the reaction that I'm getting around the country, people are sick and tired of this word in Washington, compromise. This is why nothing ever gets done.
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#51. The biggest - one of the biggest barriers to driving economic growth is the capital gains tax rate. I propose taking it to zero.
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#52. The problem with that analysis is that it is incorrect.
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#53. If the world market believed that we were serious about energy independence and we were going to utilize all of our own existing resources, the speculators would stop speculating up they start speculating down as we get our own oil out of the ground.
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#54. If 10% is good enough for God, 9% ought to be good enough for the federal government.
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#55. It was a joke to the extent in the context of the views that speech.
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#56. I didn't know I was a conservative when it didn't matter to me growing up.
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#57. It's not about me, it's about the grandkids. That's what a lot of people don't understand about what Herman is up to.
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#58. This whole notion that all African-Americans are not going to vote for Obama is not necessarily true. I believe a third would vote for me, based on my own anecdotal feedback. Not vote for me because I'm black but because of my policies.
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#59. Most of the people who are in elective office in Washington, D.C., they have held public office before. How's that working for you?
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#60. I believe these words came from the Pokemon movie. 'Life can be a challenge. Life can seem impossible. It's never easy when there's so much on the line. But you and I can make a difference. There's a mission just for you and me.'
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#61. Most of the ancestors that I can trace were born here in the United States of America. And then it goes back to slavery. And I'm sure my ancestors go all the way back to Africa, but I feel more of an affinity for America than I do for Africa. I'm a black man in America.
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#63. They say African Americans. I say black people. I've only been to Africa once. I've been in America all my life!
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#64. I haven't learned to be politically correct yet.
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#65. They call me racist too just because I disagree with a president who happens to be black. You are not racists - you are patriots.
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#66. It is not someone's fault if they succeeded, it is someone's fault if they failed.
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#67. If I had been under ObamaCare, and a bureaucrat had been trying to tell me when I could get that CT scan, that would have delayed my treatment. I was able to get the treatment as fast as I could based upon my timetable, and not the government's timetable. That's what saved my life.
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#68. In the vernacular of my grandfather, 'I does not care.'
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#69. I don't believe ... global warming is real. Do we have climate change? Yes. Is it a crisis? No ... Because the science, the real science, doesn't say that we have any major crisis or threat when it comes to climate change.
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#70. I am an American. Black. Conservative. I don't use African-American, because I'm American, I'm black and I'm conservative. I don't like people trying to label me. African- American is socially acceptable for some people, but I am not some people.
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#72. The thing that differs me from a lot of other people running for the President of the United States is that I focus on the problem first. Then I focus on what the solution is.
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#73. The majority of the people in the country don't care what color I am.
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#74. Just look inside and you will find just what you can do.
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#75. Don't blame Wall Street, don't blame the big banks. If you don't have a job and you are not rich, blame yourself!
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#76. I'm not a professional politician. I'm a professional problem solver, and I believe we should cut the salaries of senators and congressmen 10 percent until they balance the budget. I call that conservative common sense.
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#77. Let me tell you what the Cain Doctrine would be, as it relates to Israel if I were president. You mess with Israel, you are messing with the United States of America!
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#79. When they ask me who's the president of Ubeki-beki-beki-beki-stan-stan I'm going to say, you know, I don't know. Do you know? And then I'm going to say how's that going to create one job?
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#80. How do you beat Obama? Beat him with a Cain!
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#81. Remember this presidential candidate can count.
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#82. If you touch the hearts of people you can get people's minds to change, but you have to show them the beauty of not aborting a life.
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#83. I think 'Hail to the Chief' needs a little bit fresher sound. I might put some gospel beats in 'Hail to the Chief.'
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#84. I could eat black walnut all the time, it's not a flavor of the week!
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#85. Americans need accurate information in order to consider Social Security reform. Too bad the media can't be counted upon to provide it
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#87. A gold standard is to the moochers and looters in government what sunlight and garlic are to vampires.
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#88. The past several months I have been able to meet with people across this country. One thing is clear: America craves for real solutions to the problems we face. That's why I'm running for President of the United States.
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#89. Democrats are losing loyal voters, but the Republicans aren't picking them up. Democrats are ideologically bankrupt. Republicans have a major brand-identity problem
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#90. The objective of the liberals is to destroy this country.
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#91. I believe in traditional marriage and I believe in the Defense of Marriage Act.
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#92. I didn't go to political correctness school.
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#93. The one thing that the President can do is to establish a real energy independence plan. We have all the recources we need right here in this country to establish energy independence if we had the leadership.
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#95. To all those people who say that the Tea Party is a racist organization, eat your words.
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#96. In order to fix Social Security, we must restructure it so that we continue to provide for our Nation's seniors that are approaching retirement age, but allow for younger taxpayers to invest a portion of their Social Security taxes in private accounts.
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#97. One right decision doth not a great president make.
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#98. I am suspending my presidential campaign, because of the continued distractions, the continued hurt caused on me and my family, not because we are not fighters. Not because I'm not a fighter.
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#99. The American dream is under attack because our government has been hijacked by the Liberals in Washington DC.
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#100. One of the questions that I often get is, 'Why are you running to be President?'. To Be President! What did I miss? I'm not running to go to Disneyland.
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