You know, every family and every business in California knows what it means to go through tough times.

Californians are worried about whether they will have a job along with ballooning federal spending and deficits.

I will support a low, flat tax for businesses and individuals so that we fix the tax base and grow the economy.

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.

What I think we need to do to engage the American people in a conversation about entitlement reform is to have a bipartisan group of people who come together and put every solution on the table, every alternative on the table. And then we ought to engage in a long conversation with the American people so they understand the choices.

We need a different kind of leadership in the White House that understands how to get bureaucracies competent again.

It is the height of hypocrisy for [Hillary] Clinton to talk about being the first woman president when every single policy she espouses and every single policy of President [Barack] Obama has been demonstrably bad for women.