That thought process that somehow other people have to be worse off in order for you to be better off does not work. People get on boats people jump fences to get away from that kind of thought process.

Leaders at the highest levels of our government are undertaking a deliberate and systematic effort to redefine our government, our economy and our country.

You have to deal with the reality that in the political process, people are going to vote based on what they're hearing from their constituents and others.

Here is the thing people do not understand. And I have said this repeatedly. I am not against changes in U.S. policy towards Cuba. I just want to make sure that those changes are reciprocal, that they're reciprocated by the Cuban government. That was not part of what President Obama did.

A sense that with the blessings that God bestowed upon this land, came the responsibility to make the world a better place.

At a time when the American family is threatened as never before, redefining it away from the union of one man and one woman only promises to weaken it as a child-rearing, values-conveying institution.

I am as conservative as anyone running in this [president's] race, but I am a conservative that can win. That's a big deal.