As president, I will fight illegal immigration in order to preserve an appropriate level of legal immigration. At the same time, I believe our system of legal immigration needs to be re-examined. As part of this re-examination, I support a modest, temporary reduction in the annual rate of legal immigration.

I think it's OK to talk about your military service, but there's a fine line between, you know, too much and just about right.

If something happened along the route and you had to leave your children with Bob Dole or Bill Clinton, I think you would probably leave them with Bob Dole.

I'm not a Gingrich fan. He's just difficult to work with. It's either Newt's way or the highway.

When it's all over, it's not who you were ... it's whether you made a difference.

If we added up the killed and wounded from the Democrat wars in this country, it would be about 1.6 million Americans.

The state is now more involved than it ever has been in the raising of children. And children are now more neglected, more abused and more mistreated than they have been in our time. This is not a coincidence. This is not a coincidence. And with all due respect, I am here to tell you it does not take a village to raise a child. It takes a family to raise a child.