If you are philosophically a center-right donor, I think you have an interest in clearing the field. I think that’s important because there is clearly going to be a competition of philosophies for who is going to be the presidential nominee.

Virginia GOP fundraiser Bobbie Kilberg on the push to anoint a single establishment-backed presidential candidate

You would be hard pressed to find any invisible primary going back decades that was this fluid. This is going to be chaotic and cluttered for some time.

Former Mitt Romney adviser Dan Senor on the unsettled state of the GOP 2016 presidential field

I think what needed to be done was done. I think we were perfectly justified in doing it. And I'd do it again in a minute.

Former Vice President Dick Cheney, defending the CIA's brutal methods of extracting information from detainees during the Bush administration after the release of a Senate Intelligence report detailing the techniques

We don’t grapple with that here.

Gov. Rick Perry, telling a Washington Post reporter that Texas does not have a problem with income inequality

Running for the presidency's not an IQ test. It is a test of an individual's resolve. It's a test of an individual's philosophy. It's a test of an individual's life's experiences.

Perry in an interview with NBC News on what running for president is and is not