Conservatism has always been about reforming government and solving problems, and that's why the conservative movement should lead on immigration reform.

The most important thing of all is my parents were able to leave all four of their children better off than themselves. That story has a name, it's called the American dream.

Conservatism has always been about reforming government and solving problems, and that's why the conservative movement should lead on immigration reform.

We have a violence problem in America. And no one is having a debate about the violence problem. And I think this is a missed opportunity to have an honest and open conversation in this country about why these horrifying things are happening, not simply what they're using to carry this out, but why are people doing this to begin with?

Poverty does not create our social problems...our social problems create our poverty.

Here we will solve with laws and dollars, problems that too many people around the world still must solve with violence and civil war.

The American people don't trust the Federal Government to enforce our immigration laws, and we will not be able to do anything on immigration until we first prove to the American people that illegal immigration is under control. And we can do that. We know what it takes to do that.