Difficult things aren't easy, but they're worth it.

The America I know is great - not because government made it great but because ordinary citizens like me, like my father and like you are given the opportunity every day to do extraordinary things.

The Democrats have come right out and said it: the power of the central government shall have no limits at all.

My parents immigrated to the United States with $10 in their pocket and a belief that the America they had heard about really did exist as the land of opportunity.

Mr. President I am here to tell you we are not buying what you are selling in 2012.

Growing up, I had a front row seat to seeing two people work really hard. My dad scrubbed toilets at a private Catholic school for a while and that was to help me get through school.

Difficult things aren't easy, but they're worth it.