I think we need to simplify our tax code, but not as a way of generating revenue, as a way of making our tax code more growth- friendly.

I'm running for president because there's no way we can elect Hillary Clinton to continue the policies.

Do people have a right to be angry about, not just the political class, but every institution in society? Absolutely. But neither anger nor fear will solve our problems. They can serve to motivate us, but it will not solve our problems.

I've always said that the Cuban regime will not change politically.

If someone knows of a job creator anywhere in the world that's looking for a high, complex tax environment or looking for a high regulatory environment, I would like to meet them because I have yet to meet a job creator that's looking for that, and that's what we have.

I believe that the bigger problem is that we're seeing people who arrive from Cuba and a year and a day later are travelling to Cuba 40 times a year, they're staying, and that's hard to justify. The problem is not that I want to deny anything to anyone; it is the need to justify those laws.

Every generation in America has faced the same question, do we we want America to be special? Or do we just want America to be another country? The time has come again.