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

I never felt comfortable with making political decisions based on whether, you know, it was the right thing to do in terms of a poll.

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.

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.

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.

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

We need to increase our military spending. We need to deal with a no- fly zone in Syria, a safe zone.