We are a nation of faith, and we are stewards of God's world.

Jesus was too smart to ever run for public office. That's what Jesus would do.

My goal is not to win a straw poll that doesn't mean something. It's to win the election that means everything for the future of the country.

I've said that, that I've felt like as Christians and particularly even as Republicans, we needed to address issues that touched the broader perspective, and that included disease, hunger, poverty, homelessness, the environment.

Now the question is, now that we are there, what should we do in the best interest of the U.S., not only from a standpoint of the necessity of some stable democracy in the Middle East.

I want to be around people smart enough to know God created the heavens and the earth.

The problem is we have a Wall Street-to-Washington access of power that has controlled the political climate. The donor class feeds the political class who does the dance that the donor class wants. And the result is federal government keeps getting bigger.