We have a culture of political corruption in Jefferson City. We have corrupt politicians, well-paid lobbyists and special-interest insiders taking the state in the wrong direction.

I'm running for Governor because we need a political outsider to move Missouri forward.

To be very clear, I have completely ruled out state funding for stadiums.

We are not going to use money from the people of the state of Missouri for what I believe is corporate welfare. We've got far too many core priorities of government that have to be invested in.

We are fighting to bring more jobs to the people of Missouri.

Teach your children early not to pass the blame or make excuses, but to take responsibility for their actions.

Children who know that they have something to offer others will learn that they can shape the world around them for the better.

Your children should know that you're always there for them, and that they can call on you when needed. But give them the opportunity to learn to solve their own problems.

I don't think that we need to raise tuition on our students. I don't think that our students should be made to pay for the mistakes of our past politicians and the promises they made.

We need a modern government that allows people to do more on-line instead of making them wait in line.

Missourians are a hardworking people. They want good, quality jobs.

Trial lawyers can sue people in the state of Missouri, and because of how broken the system is, if they win just one dollar for their client, they still get paid huge legal fees. For too long in this state, trial lawyers have picked our people's pockets.

If you want to start or grow a business in the state of Missouri and hire more people with good jobs, I will be your friend and ally.

I know the pride of carrying our nation's flag abroad - and I have felt the grief of burying too many friends beneath that flag at home.

Our state's world famous motto, 'Show me,' reminds us that Missourians don't much value big talk.

In Missouri, we built the steamships that plied the Mississippi. It was people of Missouri who believed that a human being could fly across the Atlantic Ocean alone. And it was Missourians who built the capsule in which an American first orbited the earth.

Sometimes the purpose of our opponents is to be our teachers.

When people have jobs in a thriving economy, it solves a lot of problems.

When I was in Iraq and Afghanistan, I never once turned to someone before a raid on a house and said, 'Hey, man, are you a Democrat or a Republican?'

I came to see that it wasn't enough just to care about people. You also had to build systems in which you could ensure that there are results and accountability.

The world needs many more humanitarians than it needs warriors, but there can be none of the former without enough of the latter.

Both Sheena and I are working parents, and we know how hard it is to balance work and parenting.

The fact is, I was elected governor of the state of Missouri to bring more jobs to the state of Missouri.

We need to make sure we're making a distinction between violent felons who are in this country illegally and children who were brought here through no fault of their own, who have grown up here in America.

Anyone who is willing to take a bullet for this country, anyone who is willing to serve in uniform, should at the end of their military service be given an opportunity to become an American citizen.

We need to protect every life and that we need to defend the lives of the unborn.

When you have law-abiding citizens who are actively ready to protect themselves and their family, that reduces crime.

In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.

A great man's greatest good luck is to die at the right time.

The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.

We feel free when we escape - even if it be but from the frying pan to the fire.

The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.

It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor.

People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.

Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.

When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.

The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.

The beginning of thought is in disagreement - not only with others but also with ourselves.

Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.

Children are the keys of paradise.

Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.

There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.

You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy.

Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.

You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.

The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.

Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.

Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.

We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

It is the awareness of unfulfilled desires which gives a nation the feeling that it has a mission and a destiny.