I'm not sure we need half a billion dollars for women's health issues.

Public education must be viewed from the lens of providing each child with the learning environment that best meets his or her needs. If we can send a low-income child to a parochial school, knowing that his odds of attending college will increase as a result, then that should be our mission.

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

I've been critical of Hillary Clinton and [Barack] Obama, for sure. But John McCain had a proven record as a senator. He also ran for president [in 2016]. But he got a lot of stuff done while he was a United States senator and still does.

We must create a [economic] crisis in order to ensure that there is no alternative to a smaller government.

As governor, I saw the link between economic prosperity and the ability to acquire knowledge.

Low standards are a tactic that takes pressure off teachers unions by accepting mediocrity and failure for kids.