People would rather live in an area of poverty than in an area where there are no jobs, because if they live in poverty, they have a certain sense of hope they can get out of it. If there are no jobs, there's no hope. And bad things come from that.

Never in my lifetime have I been called boring. But I think I was a boring candidate for president because I tried to be responsible. And one of the greatest problems I had is that I was governor.

The first thing we better get going is strengthening our economy, because if we don't have a strong economy, we can't pay for all of this. And the world wants us to be able to function from strength, believe it or not.

People are frustrated. They're fed up. They don't think the government is working for them.

Any politician who is not a unifier is not somebody that I want to be for.

I served on the Armed Services Committee for 18 years and we must lead, or the job won't get done, unfortunately, for our country.

I'm not a big guy that believes that you gain energy from demonizing other people. I think you gain energy from giving people hope.