I saw at a young age that one bad break can turn a family's financial life upside down. And it has affected everything in my life since then.

The credit card companies have put the loan sharks out of business.

Our number one responsibility is to protect Americans from terrorism, that’s our job, so being tough on terrorism is enormously important.

You know, if you’re caught with an ounce of cocaine, the chances are good you’re going to go to jail. If it happens repeatedly, you may go to jail for the rest of your life. But evidently, if you launder nearly a billion dollars for drug cartels and violate our international sanctions, your company pays a fine and you go home and sleep in your own bed at night, every single individual associated with this. I think that’s fundamentally wrong.

Barack Obama heard the American people.

That is especially important as more young people must take on huge debt loads to go to college.

I'm willing to throw my body in front of the bus to stop bad ideas.