I'm not a big believer in man-made climate change.

We will immediately terminate President [Barack] Obama's two illegal executive amnesties in which he defied federal law and the Constitution to give amnesty to approximately five million illegal immigrants, five million.

Child-care costs are now the largest family expenditure in much of America, even exceeding the cost of housing.

Any violation of civil rights will be aggressively pursued and prosecuted by my administration. No one will be above the law.

Does anybody really believe that Iraq is going to be a wonderful democracy where people are going to run down to the voting box and gently put in their ballot and the winner is happily going to step up to lead the county? C'mon. Two minutes after we leave, there's going to be a revolution, and the meanest, toughest, smartest, most vicious guy will take over. And he'll have weapons of mass destruction, which Saddam didn't have.

As far as my tax returns, you don't learn that much from tax returns.

I'm on [Antonin] Scalia's side 100 percent. His death was a tremendous loss.