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

If we look at American history, between 1942 and 1947, the data that was collected by the Census Bureau was handed over to the FBI and other organizations at the request of President Roosevelt, and that's how the Japanese were rounded up and put into the internment camps.

We have to have a candidate who is going to stand for our issues and our values and be a true, proven constitutional conservative.

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

You should get to keep every dollar that you earn. That's your money. That's not the government's money.

If people are rude, that may be the end of the conversation, and maybe we won't have a subsequent conversation. But I believe in giving people the benefit of the doubt and believing the best about the person.

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.