Well, I've been a Republican for all of my voting life.

I don't take on a fight just for a fight. I don't tilt at windmills.

I have advocated for rolling back regulations, simplifying the tax code and moving to zero-based budgeting - policies that will support small businesses and raise up the middle class.

People's ideas and fears can make them small but they cannot make you small. People's prejudices can diminish them but they cannot diminish you. Small-minded people can think they determine your worth. But only you can determine your worth.

Citizens, it is time to take our country back from the political class, from the media, from the liberal elite.

We need an employer verification system that works so that we can hold employers accountable.

I am a conservative and proud of it.