We're telling small-business owners that not only are we going to raise their costs by a buck and a quarter, but we're also going to raise it with these cost-of-living adjustments. Here's what's going to happen: They're going to have to lay people off.

I'm quite sure that no court is telling anybody that they cannot say whatever they want to say.

The truth was you can't continue to spend the kind of money our spending on all these entitlement programs. I think we need more people in public life who are willing to say, no, we can't afford certain things. No, we can't do certain things.

You know, at some point there has to be parity. There has to be parity between what is happening in the real world, and what is happening in the public sector world.

It is our obligation to stop Hillary Clinton now and never let her get within 10 miles of the White House again.

What do you think the appropriate role of government is in society? The way I look at this job is, you want me to do X? Well, is the private sector doing X with any kind of success? Because if they are, I'd rather have them do it than have us do it.

If I missed my moment, I missed my moment. I mean, I wasn't pining to be president of the United States.