Quotes from Foster Friess

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

I did one of those 'born again' things and invited Jesus to become the chairman of the board, of my life.

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

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?

I'm not a big fan of the high-altitude approach of mega TV ads.

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

If we don't change our culture, the politics is going to migrate more and more to statism.

'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?

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.

Success should stem from entrepreneurial creativity, not political connectivity.

There's a group of people - maybe the secular Taliban is a good name for them - who have morphed this idea, that you have to accept my values being every bit as cherished as your values. That's not tolerance... There are too many things in this world which we sit back and tolerate.

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

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

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

It's so sad to see how few people in the Obama administration have any private sector experience.