I think Detroit would do real well if we started repopulating it with young, aspirational people.

We've got to be willing to lose the primary in order to win the general election.

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

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.

I'm not an expert on the ways of Washington [but] it makes no sense to me that we're not funding control of our border.

I think to deal with Putin, you need to deal from strength. He's a bully, you enable bad behavior when you're nuanced with a guy like that.

It's at the core of the Catholic faith, and to imagine how we are going to succeed in our country unless we have committed family life, a child-centered family system, is hard to imagine.