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.

I don't think it's the highest priority. I don't think we should ignore it, either, just generally I think as conservatives we should embrace innovation, embrace technology, embrace science. ... Sometimes I sense that we pull back from the embrace of these things. We shouldn't.

There are people who believe in expanding the welfare state across the spectrum of races and ethnicities and creeds.

I think President Obama has used the bully pulpit as a way to attack capitalism.

We need to unleash the military in unison with our partners in Europe and the Middle East to be effective.

We now have a national security consideration, public health issues, we have an epidemic of heroine overdoses in all places in this country because of the ease of bringing heroine in. We have to secure the border.

If I'm president, I'll be a commander-in-chief, not an agitator- in-chief or a divider-in-chief, that I will lead this country in a way that will create greater security and greater safety.