Everybody should have a chance to rise. That's our philosophy in Ohio and that's my philosophy for America.

I do not support a civil war. I don't want to be policeman of the world. But we can't back off of this.

You cannot build a little guy up by tearing a big guy down. Abraham Lincoln said it...

I do believe that the party needs to evolve, or I won't be a part of it.

We need to give everybody a chance, treat everybody with respect, and let them share in this great American dream that we have.

I was the chairman of the Budget Committee and the lead architect the last time it happened in Washington, and when we did it we had great economic growth, we cut taxes, and we had a big surplus.

There is a difference between Iraq, where you have Sunni, Shia, and Kurds put together after the First World War by the Western powers. It doesn't work. It needs to break up into three parts.