Top 50 Herman Cain Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Success is not the key to happiness, happiness is the key to success.”

— Herman Cain

2. “There are generally three kinds of people in the world. People who make things happen, people who watch things happen, and people who say, what in the heck happened.”

— Herman Cain

3. “I believe these words came from the Pokemon movie. ‘Life can be a challenge. Life can seem impossible. It’s never easy when there’s so much on the line. But you and I can make a difference. There’s a mission just for you and me.’”

— Herman Cain

4. “Just look inside and you will find just what you can do.”

— Herman Cain

5. “The objective of the liberals is to destroy this country.”

— Herman Cain

6. “It is wise to keep in mind that no success or failure is necessarily final. Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.”

— Herman Cain

7. “The more toppings a man has on his pizza, I believe the more manly he is. A manly man don’t want it piled high with vegetables! He would call that a sissy pizza.”

— Herman Cain

8. “I’m not a professional politician. I’m a professional problem solver...”

— Herman Cain

9. “Stupid people are ruining America.”

— Herman Cain

10. “They say African Americans. I say black people. I’ve only been to Africa once. I’ve been in America all my life!”

— Herman Cain

11. “I could eat black walnut all the time, it’s not a flavor of the week!”

— Herman Cain

12. “A gold standard is to the moochers and looters in government what sunlight and garlic are to vampires.”

— Herman Cain

13. “If you touch the hearts of people you can get people’s minds to change, but you have to show them the beauty of not aborting a life.”

— Herman Cain

14. “In the vernacular of my grandfather, ‘I does not care.’”

— Herman Cain

15. “The American dream is under attack because our government has been hijacked by the Liberals in Washington DC.”

— Herman Cain

16. “I can connect with peoples’ pain because I was ‘po’ before I was ‘poor’.”

— Herman Cain

17. “The endorsement process is an evolution. What you try to do is you endorse someone that you believe in and their ideas and their solutions align with yours.”

— Herman Cain

18. “How do you say ‘delicious’ in Cuban?”

— Herman Cain

19. “When all else fails the liberals call you names or attack your personality.”

— Herman Cain

20. “I’m ready for the ‘gotcha’ questions and they’re already starting to come...”

— Herman Cain

21. “And I’m here to tell you, the reaction that I’m getting around the country, people are sick and tired of this word in Washington, compromise. This is why nothing ever gets done.”

— Herman Cain

22. “When they ask me who’s the president of Ubeki-beki-beki-beki-stan-stan I’m going to say, you know, I don’t know. Do you know? And then I’m going to say how’s that going to create one job?”

— Herman Cain

23. “We need a leader, not a reader.”

— Herman Cain

24. “If ObamaCare had been fully implemented when I caught cancer, I’d be dead.”

— Herman Cain

25. “I know I’m going to get in trouble!”

— Herman Cain

26. “America has got to learn to take a joke.”

— Herman Cain

27. “Republicans have been losing the war of words for years now. Now they are just caving because they don’t even want to try. I don’t agree with that approach.”

— Herman Cain

28. “No Blitz, that’s oversimplifying it!”

— Herman Cain

29. “It’s not Planned Parenthood. No, it’s planned genocide. You can quote me on that.”

— Herman Cain

30. “The real problem is clean up the bureaucracy that people have to deal with to become a citizen the right way. And we must truly secure the border. We can’t leave it porous.”

— Herman Cain

31. “If the tea party is so racist, how come when they have straw polls the black guy keeps winning?”

— Herman Cain

32. “I believe in traditional marriage and I believe in the Defense of Marriage Act.”

— Herman Cain

33. “I think ‘Hail to the Chief’ needs a little bit fresher sound. I might put some gospel beats in ‘Hail to the Chief.’”

— Herman Cain

34. “I’m not supposed to know anything about foreign policy. Just thought I’d throw that out.”

— Herman Cain

35. “I am suspending my presidential campaign.”

— Herman Cain

36. “Prime Minister Benjamin Netyanahu made it real clear. They’re willing to be generous on some other concessions but not on the border issue. And I don’t blame him.”

— Herman Cain

37. “One right decision doth not a great president make.”

— Herman Cain

38. “Just call me Mr. Cain. And in 2013, they can call me Mr. President.”

— Herman Cain

39. “There’s no hidden secrets going on in the Federal Reserve.”

— Herman Cain

40. “I think that taxes would be fair if we first get rid of the tax code.”

— Herman Cain

41. “It’s not about me, it’s about the grandkids. That’s what a lot of people don’t understand about what Herman is up to.”

— Herman Cain

42. “I just want people who are qualified, I want them to believe in the Constitution of the United States of America. So yep, I don’t have a problem with appointing an openly gay person. Because they’re not going to try to put sharia law in our laws.”

— Herman Cain

43. “How do you beat Obama? Beat him with a Cain!”

— Herman Cain

44. “The thing that differs me from a lot of other people running for the President of the United States is that I focus on the problem first. Then I focus on what the solution is.”

— Herman Cain

45. “The past several months I have been able to meet with people across this country. One thing is clear: America craves for real solutions to the problems we face. That’s why I’m running for President of the United States.”

— Herman Cain

46. “The lesson that I’m learning is that I’ve got to be careful of being pigeonholed because people can take a piece of tape and edit out the first half and only pull out one snippet that could start a firestorm.”

— Herman Cain

47. “Americans need accurate information in order to consider Social Security reform. Too bad the media can’t be counted upon to provide it.”

— Herman Cain

48. “Democrats are losing loyal voters, but the Republicans aren’t picking them up. Democrats are ideologically bankrupt. Republicans have a major brand-identity problem.”

— Herman Cain

49. “The one thing that the President can do is to establish a real energy independence plan. We have all the resources we need right here in this country to establish energy independence if we had the leadership.”

— Herman Cain

50. “Well, I’m just about at the elevator up to the family quarters. But bear with me for just a minute more as I confirm who I am. It’s obvious: I’m the president of the United States of America!”

— Herman Cain