ISIS has a caliphate the size of Indiana! Also, US military has been totally gutted. Can't even project power anymore.

If we are going to compete in this world we're in today, there is no possible way we can do it with lowering expectations and dumbing down everything. Children are going to suffer and families' hearts are going to be broken that their kids won't be able to get a job in the 21st Century.

The notion that somehow you're going to have freedom just kind of outbreak in Cuba, I think is false.

If you apply conservative principles and you stick with it, and you have the leadership skills to bring people toward the cause, you can move the needle on these things, i reject the notion that we can't solve problems, that the gridlock is too enormous to forge consensus. It requires some creativity to get to a win for everybody.

You have to maintain your principles but have a broader appeal.

People with deep faith and big hearts are concerned, as I am about the circumstance that Ms. Schiavo is in. I want them to know I will do what I can, but there are limits to what any particular person - irrespective of the title they currently hold - can do.

My wife and I are living large in our beloved Miami and I'm working on the things that are important to me.