I owe a debt to America that I will never be able to repay.

Leadership can not be measured in a poll or even in the result of an election. It can only be truly seen with the benefit of time. From the perspective of 20 years, not 20 days.

I mean, on virtually every major issue before this country that is the natural purview of the federal government, it's important to have some specificity about what you're going to do if you want to be the president. And so I agree that, up until this point, it hasn't been a huge factor.

I do think we lost some of the focus on the attacks in San Bernardino and focused on a plan that isn't really a plan and is never going to happen.

I think God has blessed us. He has blessed the Republican Party with some very good candidates. The Democrats can't even find one.

Let's stop talking about new taxes and start talking about creating new taxpayers, which basically means jobs.

Every single one of us is the descendant of a go-getter. Of dreamers and of believers.