Certainly people make mistakes in their life. I'm no different, I've made mistakes. When people mess up, we forgive them. When I mess up, I ask for forgiveness.

I'd like to give zero out capital gains tax and zero out the dividends tax, zero out alternative minimum tax, and zero out the death tax.

I come from a modest background. I put myself through college and law school and a postdoctorate program in tax law.

I think it's best if there's an amendment that goes on the ballot where the people can weigh in. Every time this issue has gone on the ballot, the people have voted to retain the traditional definition of marriage as recently as California in 2008.

People think when you have a, quote, 'bank failure,' that that is the end of the bank. And it isn't necessarily.

I do support a constitutional amendment on marriage between a man and a woman, but I would not be going into the states to overturn their state law.

I have a very strong, very proven record that I am not a compromiser. [...] I have a spine made out of titanium.