The real problem is clean up the bureaucracy that people have to deal with to become a citizen the right way. And we must truly secure the border. We can't leave it porous.

And I'm here to tell you, the reaction that I'm getting around the country, people are sick and tired of this word in Washington, compromise. This is why nothing ever gets done.

The real problem is clean up the bureaucracy that people have to deal with to become a citizen the right way. And we must truly secure the border. We can't leave it porous.

My presence in the social media and on the Internet is much bigger than many of the other candidates, including Mitt Romney. So, when you take the social media and you take the Tea Party citizens movement, you have a combination there that, quite frankly, 10 years ago, I wouldn't have had a chance.

Well, you show me the science [that being gay is not a choice] and I'll be persuaded.

Most of the people who are in elective office in Washington, D.C., they have held public office before. How's that workin' for you?

Republicans have been losing the war of words for years now. Now they are just caving because they don't even want to try. I don't agree with that approach.