Many good people mistake their reputation for their character. It is a mistake I have made many, many times.

I just think that we ought to protect the Social Security fund.

What evidence do we have that states are incapable of further exercising an authority they have exercised successfully for over 200 years?

America has the strongest, best-trained, best-led military force in the world, and we have failed them. Our military today is struggling in virtually every category that measures preparedness.

The president(Obama) comparing him to a kid in the back of a classroom, I think, is very indicative of the president's lack of appreciation of who Vladimir Putin is. He's an old KGB colonel that has no illusions about our relationship, does not care about a relationship with the United States, continues to oppress his people, continues to act in an autocratic fashion.

If you talk to these young men and women who are fighting, they'll tell you that they think it's a worthwhile cause, and they're fighting for freedom, and they-well, they-all I'm saying-the overwhelming majority of them do.

Do we really want another politician in the White House America can't trust?