I ran for president in order to be able to try to change Washington D.C. from the inside. Our federal government is broken.

Just call me Mr. Cain. And in 2013, they can call me Mr. President.

I don't believe ... global warming is real. Do we have climate change? Yes. Is it a crisis? No. ... Because the science, the real science, doesn't say that we have any major crisis or threat when it comes to climate change.

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.

African-Americans have been brainwashed into not being open-minded, not even considering a conservative point of view. I have received some of that same vitriol simply because I am running for the Republican nomination as a conservative. So it's just brainwashing and people not being open-minded, pure and simple.

It's not about me, it's about the grandkids. That's what a lot of people don't understand about what Herman is up to.

I am suspending my presidential campaign.