My dad was a bartender that worked banquets. So that meant holidays, weekends, nights.

I think there's a growing amount of confusion about what conservatism is. And it is time for us to understand that conservatism is not built on personalities. Conservatism is not simply built on how angry you might seem from time to time. Conservatism is built on a set of principles and ideas that our nation desperately needs.

We've learned more from the newspapers sometimes than we do from our open hearings, for sure.

You have got to know what you're doing on your very first day there. So, look, this is not an attack or anything of that nature. It's just a very simple observation. If you want to be president, you have to start detailing some specific public policy. And I don't think from this point forward in the campaign, voters are going to be as tolerant of the lack of that as they have been up to now.

How come liberals never admit that they're liberal? They've now come up with a new word called 'progressive,' which I thought was an insurance company but apparently it's a label.

I am not now, nor will I ever be, a candidate for offensive coordinator of Iowa.

I'm not interested in being Donald Trump or anybody else's vice president, that's not what I'm aiming at.