I had the chance to be governor for eight years and I took a year to transition out and a year to transition in, so that's a decade of my life where I pursued my own ambitions and I thought it was time to rearrange my life to focus on other things.

I've never heard anybody in my family say anything but good things about Rick Perry.

The Russians and rogue actors, including ISIS - this is a serious part of the 21st century security challenge that we face.

[Barack Obama] believes climate change is a bigger threat to our country than these barbaric Islamic terrorists that have as their organizing principle the destruction of Western civilization.

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.

By blaming others, we fail to find the real solutions to our problems and we do not carry out our own responsibilities.

Is Islam a religion of peace? I'm sure for some of the practitioners, but it's been hijacked by people who have an ideology that wants to destroy western civilization, and they're barbarians.