I'm happy to tell you that having been through surgery and chemotherapy and radiation, breast cancer is officially behind me. I feel absolutely great and I am raring to go.

There are kind of four people up at the top, [Donald] Trump,[Marco] Rubio,[Ted] Cruz,[Ben] Carson, and then there's me and about three governors. I'm perfectly happy with that position right now, honestly, because when I started this race, I was 17 out of 16. The pollsters didn't even ask my name, because so few people knew me.

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.

Fiscal policy is not just, or even not even principally, the purview of the president.

The world is a more tragic and dangerous place when American isn't leading and, under this president, we have not been leading.

Make the choice to do something because it engages your heart as well as your mind. Make the choice because it engages all of you.

My mother taught me about the power of inspiration and courage, and she did it with a strength and a passion that I wish could be bottled.