Foster Friess Quotes

Would-be adoptive parents have to struggle for years through a bureaucratic obstacle course at an average cost of $30,000.

Life is just so much fun and so filled with humor.

Amazon's Jeff Bezos, Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, and Steve Jobs did not start out wealthy, and actually added to income inequality, but we all benefit from their creative effort.

The United Nations Children's Fund reports that more than 18 million children worldwide have lost both parents to the ravages of AIDS, starvation, war or natural disasters.

I allowed Rick Santorum to express views and ideas that the American people never would have had expressed.

In the old days, money controlled politics. Today, information controls politics. So I think with the advent of the Internet, the power of wealth has been diminished. Look up all the people you know who spent millions and millions of dollars and fell short.

You don't want to put all your lead on the target. You want to leave some arrows in the quiver.

I'm not the hands-on guy. I like writing the check, and I turn it over to the guys that make it happen, much like the way I ran my business.

I want to make sure the people we elect to office believe in America.

'Hannity' had a a guy on that said, 'I fathered 20 kids by 14 mothers.' That is s cultural issue which has demeaned our society and has caused our society dearly in terms of imprisonment. Who's going to be the fathers to those children? Who's going to pay child support?

If you look at Republicans, they always run these old war horses.

I think the thing I'd like to do is just educate the people to some of the travesties they can end.

President Obama's over in Indonesia when guys like me were at a paper route. President Obama, I don't know what experience he had at that same age when he was in Indonesia. So I think it's hard for him to grasp that America entrepreneurial spirit.

It can be tough to find areas where Left and Right can agree. Consider the well-being of children: Americans often disagree about how to raise kids, how to educate them, even what to feed them.

There isn't a person at the Koch brothers events who would not get a good return on their investment by investing in [Santorum] as president, because of what they believe about the free enterprise system.

What people love about Santorum is he is who is he. He speaks his words. He loves God. He loves his country, and he loves gays.

I've said before, the number one thing that we have to work on is protecting the gay community from sharia law. Now, in the United States, it's probably not a big issue right now, but my brother-in-law is gay, and his partner and I would like them to be able to travel any place in the world without them risking harm.

You might not be able to control your circumstances, but you can control your response to your circumstances.

Success should stem from entrepreneurial creativity, not political connectivity.

How hard have those intolerant of John Adams's perspective worked to strip from young people any hope of knowing the concepts and truths that help deal with life?

The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.

A conservative, a liberal, and a moderate walk into a bar. The bartender says, 'Hi, Mitt.'

I love Romney. It is not his fault that he is the son of a successful governor and makes $20 million a year.

In certain states, if a woman makes $12,000 a year, and lives with her quarter-of-a million dollar boyfriend and they don't get married, as long as they don't get married, she gets maybe 20 or 30 thousand dollars in pre-tax benefits in terms of food stamps, health care and housing allowance.

Go to Cleveland Clinic, Mayo Clinic, or any college and you'll see libraries, dormitories, and a lot of buildings that were a result of the generosity of fat cats.

Santorum is the greatest person on the face of the planet as far as I'm concerned.

Rick Santorum is the grandson of a coal miner. His dad was the manager of a V.A. hospital.

I very, very much want to be involved in helping those senators, congressmen, and women who support the principles that made America great.

The McCain-Feingold limit on how much you give a candidate didn't really work because people found ways to get around it.

You know, back in my days, they used Bayer aspirin for contraception. The gals put it between their knees, and it wasn't that costly.

I think culture precedes politics, and I think the attempts to try and legislate people's behavior ... isn't going to be productive until the culture decides what they want to achieve.

I think we should be encouraged to learn from Columbine and let it be a battle cry for all of us.

I have no control over the super PAC; all I do is write the check.

Do we really want Washington administrators coming between us and our doctors?

If we really want to cherish religious freedom, people who want to believe that same-sex marriage should take place, they have a right to believe that, and people who want to believe it's inappropriate, we should not demonize those people - if we really believe in religious liberty.

I think of all the guys that strap a gun on their backs and head to Afghanistan and Iraq to keep us free and safe and maintain what America has stood for.

Every child should at least grow up in family rather than without one.