I started out as a receptionist. I typed, I filed, I answered the phones for a little nine-person company.

We need to enact fundamental tax reform. The weight and complexity of our 73,000-page tax code are crushing everyday Americans. We need to radically simplify the tax code so that we can re-start the real engine of growth in our economy. That means our tax code needs to go from 73,000 pages down to about three pages.

People are angry that things as common sense as securing the border and eliminating sanctuary cities are being framed as extreme views. They are tired of empty rhetoric without action, and they are hungry for a leader from outside the professional political class.

I think our nation is at a pivotal point. Too many people fear that we are losing the sense of limitless possibility that has always defined this nation.

What I have said to people is that I've lived the American dream, because I have.

Socialism starts when government creates a problem, and then government steps in to solve the problem.

I was naming the five warriors of our generation who have experience, four out of five I would argue were retired early out of the [Barack] Obama administration because they said things the Obama administration didn't particularly want to hear.