However, however, if the goal is to abandon America's free enterprise economy, if the goal is to convert America into a submissive member of the international community, if the goal is not to fix America, but to change America, then they want leaders that are going to come up here and fight it every step of the way.

Immigration is not an issue that I read about in the newspaper or watch a documentary on PBS or CNN. It's an issues I've lived around my whole life. My family are immigrants. My wife's family are immigrants. All of my neighbors are immigrants.

Everything that I will ever accomplish, I owe to God, to my parent's sacrifices, and to the United States of America.

I would love nothing more than compromise. But I would say to you that compromise that's not a solution is a waste of time.

We will have to work around the world with less than ideal governments. The government in Saudi Arabia is not a democracy, but we will have to work with them. The government in Jordan is not perfect, but we will have to work with them. But anti-American dictators like [Bashar] Assad, who help Hezbollah, who helped get those IEDs into Iraq, if they go, I will not shed a tear.

I'm proud of the fact that the Republican Party is the pro-life party on the issue of life.

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