National security - the military is the first thing we should spend money on. You have to fully fund that first. And then you should be paying for everything else.

We [the USA] have a $16 trillion debt which these tax increases will do nothing to solve and you will have at least 200,000 less jobs next year than you have now. And the people who vote for that will be responsible for that decision and they will held accountable for that terrible public policy.

Even today with the problems that we face, who would you rather be? Which country would you trade places with?

First, the federal government, one of the fundamental responsibilities that it has is to protect the nation's health and wellbeing. And this [Zika virus] is a threat to public health in the United States. It is a very serious disease.

When I'm president of the United States, we're going to have a VA that cares more about our veterans than about the bureaucrats who work at the VA.

The No. 1 issue in the Hispanic American community is 'How do I leave my children better off than myself?

I've seen how the left has used it to accuse opponents of their version of reform of being bigots and racists.