You don't create jobs by passing bills, you create jobs by cutting taxes.

A leader's most important decisions are about people. Who do you put in which jobs? How long do you leave them in a job?

It's the federal government's job to secure the border.

I don't give up on commitments until what I've been asked to do is clearly finished.

I think bolstering free trade is a boon to the dollar.

Like all of you I'm angry. I'm angry at what's happening to our nation. Citizens, it's time to take our country back. Bombastic insults wont take it back. Political rhetoric that promises a lot and delivers little, won't take it back. All of our problems can be solved. All of our wounds can be healed by a tested leader who is willing to fight for the character of our nation.

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.