I was blessed to have a mother and father that recognized the value of education.

We need to embed our forces - our troops inside the Iraqi military. We need to arm directly the Kurds. And all of that has to be done in concert with the Arab nations.

The real problem is Barack Obama has had six years to advocate a position to fix this and he's done nothing. The congress has funded these programs of building more fencing and doing all this and he hasn't done it.

They called me Veto Corleone. Because I vetoed 2,500 separate line-items in the budget.

There's a fine line between stubbornness and the positive side of that, which is dogged determination.

I believe that I have the executive experience and the ideas and the proven record to fix things.

I really think that elected officials should be focused on how you create sustained economic growth, how do you create jobs and all of these issues that made people - segments of our society believe are really important are diversions politically.