The greatest gift a parent can give a child is unconditional love. As a child wanders and strays, finding his bearings, he needs a sense of absolute love from a parent. There's nothing wrong with tough love, as long as the love is unconditional.

We should - we will - welcome people of faith into the political process... It is essential that believers enter the arena. Your involvement in politics helps determine how well our democracy works. We have finally learned that government programs cannot solve our problems. Government can hand out money, but government cannot put hope in our hearts or a sense of purpose in our lives.

There needs to be debates, like we're going through. There needs to be townhall meetings. There needs to be travel. This is a huge country.

To give law enforcement the additional tools it needs to track down terror here at home.

I understand gas prices are like a hidden tax - not a hidden tax; it's taking money out of people's pockets. I know that.

I said you were a man of peace. I want you to know I took immense crap for that.

You'll hear people say it's racist to test. Folks, it's racist not to test. Because guess who gets shuffled through the system oftentimes? Children whose parents don't speak English as a first language, inner-city kids. It's so much easier to quit on somebody than to remediate.