I pay for everything I'm proposing.

We need to make it easier for companies to invest in good jobs here at home.

I don't think that the United States has the bulk of the responsibility. I really put that on Bashar Assad and on the Iraqis and on the region itself.

Despite our best efforts and our highest hopes, America's long struggle with race is far from finished.

I don't think we should be about the business of denying voters in Michigan and Florida the right to be heard.

I think Barack Obama had the right idea [on negotiations with enemies], and the bottom line is that of course there have to be conditions. But, of course it doesn't do us any good to not talk with our adversaries.

If we were to normalize relations right now, we would remove one of the biggest pieces of leverage we have to try to influence and change Iranian behavior.