I've always believed that if you support reform or you support a particular idea that you ought to fund that idea first and not the system.

A third of our kids, after we spend more per student than any country in the world other than a couple rounding errors, 30 percent are college- and/or career-ready.

The progressive and liberal mindset believes that to every problem there is a Washington, D.C., solution.

There's a whole lot of America that looks at each other and says, 'Well, there's 340 million people living in America. Isn't there somebody other than a Bush or a Clinton who can be president in these modern times'?

This is something - we have to have the best defensive capabilities. We need to coordinate all of our efforts with the private sector. We need to give them liability relief so that we can do that.

If we're serious about America's leadership in the world, then we need to make sure that we have the back of the armed forces.

This is a tough business to run for president.