America is the most compassionate country in the entire world. We do more for folks around this world. And that's the nature of the American people.

Containment is a strategy for losers! But as General George S. Patton famously observed, Americans play to win all the time. Americans don't play to lose.

We must stop being the stupid party.

In the aftermath of September 11th, it is critical to secure our borders.

We don't measure our people's success in how they're doing in government. We measure how they are doing in the real world and the private sector economy.

As president I would actually name the enemy, radical Islamic terrorists. We've got a president [ Barack Obama] who wants to apologize for America and wants to criticize medieval Christian and wants to wage war on junk food. He won't even say the words "radical Islamic terrorists."

Louisiana loses 30 miles a year off our coast. We lost 100 miles last year off our coast thanks to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. We have lost a size of land equivalent to the entire state of Rhode Island.