I'm really paying attention. People make up their minds late.

Human potential is the only limitless resource we have in this world.

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

All the pundits and D.C. insiders thought I'd never be standing on the main stage. I am and I'm going to stay there.

I have been tested. My faith has been tested. I have battled breast cancer. I have buried a child. Through it all, the love of my family and my personal relationship with Jesus Christ has seen me through. And on this journey my family and my faith will see me through as well. I will not falter, and I will not shrink from this fight.

China is a rising adversary. So one of the things we have to do if we want China's support is to push back on China.

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.