In America, we will have secure borders, but we'll also have reform.

I agree completely with Secretary Colin Powell, who said today this is an absurdity. And so I think the American people will know it's an absurdity. I have absolutely no concerns about it whatsoever.

Words matter when you run for president. And they really matter when you are president.

Nobody should want to wake up on November 9th and wonder whether there was more you could have done.

I will fight against the division politics of revenge and retribution. If you put me to work for you, I will work to lift people up, not put them down.

Now, Florida laws do not regulate assault weapons or large capacity ammunition magazines. Doesn't even require a permit to purchase a gun or register it or be licensed. So if we don't have action on the federal level that would have set off the alert, it will be difficult to interrupt the plans of someone like this who clearly, by the time he went and purchased these weapons.

One of the best investments we can make is to give our kids the ingredients they need to develop in the first five years of life.