Conservatives understand that the power that binds our republic together is fierce independence held high on the shoulders of compassion.

When more Americans prefer freebies to freedom, these great United States will become a fertile ground for tyranny.

We must never forget why we have, and why we need our military. Our armed forces exist solely to ensure our nation is safe, so that each and every one of us can sleep soundly at night, knowing we have 'guardians at the gate.'

For far too long we've allowed the other side to paint us as racist, as sexist, inhumane war mongers - well, today as a conservative black Republican and former soldier, I'm here to set that record straight.

Well, I think we need to have attrition by enforcement. We need to secure our borders. We need to enforce our laws.

Indeed, there are Islamic terrorist training camps in America

When you talk about raising that debt limit, the only way that I would ever support raising the debt limit if we also talk about budgetary controls on the federal government, capping its spending, how do we deal with the Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid problems, because they cannot continue to run on auto-pilot.