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

We saw the president of the United States engage American troops in a fourth conflict in a foreign land. This is historic.

Don't misunderstand. I am not here bashing people who are homosexuals, who are lesbians, who are bisexual, who are transgender. We need to have profound compassion for people who are dealing with the very real issue of sexual dysfunction in their life and sexual identity disorders.

I made a decision when I ran for president that I wouldn't whine about my coverage in the media, and I never did.

We must never forget what government is not. Government is not a philanthropic organization. Government is not the family. And government certainly is not the church.

Government has really been growing, a lot of largesse, but the people in the real world aren't. And that's what has to change. Government has no conformity at all with the real world.

There are hundreds and hundreds of scientists, many of them holding Nobel Prizes, who believe in intelligent design.