I think the lesson's learned are that we have to have to have a strategy to get and a strategy to get out. Which means, that you create a stable situation.

Our children can achieve great things when we set high expectations for them.

Stand your ground means stand your ground. It doesn't mean chase after somebody who's turned their back.

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

That, by the way, is perhaps the most ludicrous comment I've ever heard, that climate change is a bigger threat to our country than radical Islamic terrorism.

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.

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.