Unlike any other leader in modern American history, we are led today by a president that has decided to pit Americans against each other.

I don't really like labels in politics, but I will gladly accept the label of conservatism.

America is the story of everyday people who did extraordinary things. A story woven deep into the fabric of our society.

To help people emerge from the poverty, you have to understand, what are the structural causes of it? And the structural causes are partially cultural.

My parents were working class folks. My dad was a bartender for most of his life, my mom was a maid and a cashier and a stock clerk at WalMart. We were not people of financial means in terms of significant financial means. I always told them, 'I didn't always have what I wanted. I always had what I needed.' My parents always provided that.

Raising the minimum wage may poll well, but having a job that pays $10 an hour is not the American Dream. And our current government programs, offer at best only a partial solution. They help people deal with poverty, but they do not help them escape it.

We have reached a moment in our history where we think that every problem in America has to have a federal government solution. Every problem in America does not have a federal government solution. In fact, most problems in America do not have a federal government solution and many of them are created by the federal government to begin with.