“I will barely walk to the bathroom, but I will walk to an Apple store.”
“Occupy Wall Street is Obama’s base. Those are his foot soldiers.”
“I don’t know about you, I don’t like a president who threatens me. I want him threatening our enemies. But he makes me feel like an enemy.”
“Steve Jobs, what he did with his life and business — and there are many others, too, he’s not alone in this — illustrates the entire concept of American exceptionalism.”
“We don’t make derogatory comments about black people. We make derogatory comments about liberals.”
“Don’t be afraid of lawyers. It stands in the way of creativity.”
“Let’s just pretend for a second that Obama’s jobs bill is $450 billion of just stimulus spending. Somebody explain to me how spending $450 billion is gonna get every bridge repaired, every school repaired, every road repaired, and everybody who doesn’t have a job, a job.”
“I firmly believe that one of the fundamental elements of remaining young at heart is a never ending quest for knowledge, an insatiable curiosity. It keeps you going. It keeps you engaged.”
“These kids are protesting the very thing that makes it possible for them to do what they do, live and feed off of other people.”
“I would have loved to be the guy to write Jobs’ biography. I would have loved to have had the chance to just pick his brain and find out what it was about him.”
“All of this talk about millionaires and billionaires, people not paying their fair share, and this relentless assault on achievement in this country has resulted in what? The appearance of a spontaneous combustion of angry white college students who are fed up with all the injustices that this country is famous for.”
“What Jobs did literally changed the way human beings receive-transmit-enjoy all media. One guy did this. He had a lot of great people around him, but one guy did it. One guy’s vision.”
“Obama’s pushing hard to change the facts, position himself as a man who wants to create jobs with a phony jobs bill. It’s just a massive tax increase bill. It isn’t gonna happen. He’s not gonna get away with this lie.”
“It’s difficult as an adult to have child-like wonder.”
“I spent 18 hours, not straight, but I spent 18 hours of effort trying to get a new iPhone 4. There’s nothing else. There’s no other product. There’s no other device. There’s no other inanimate object in life that I do that for.”
“If there was one person who stands as an almost total contradiction to Elizabeth Warren’s ignorant anti-capitalist rant, it’s Steve Jobs.”
“Now, let’s really sum up this press conference for you, this news conference where no news was made. Obama said, ‘If the jobs bill doesn’t pass, the economy could get worse.’ The economy is getting worse! It has been getting worse since his first day in office.”
“I talk about Apple and Jobs because I love greatness. I just love greatness. I am fascinated by it. I am intrigued by how it happens. I’m intrigued about every aspect of greatness and excellence, because it’s so genuinely rare.”