Everywhere I go on the campaign trail, I meet voters with a real thirst for a healthy discussion of the issues. Ultimately, people don't care whether an issue comes from the left or the right. What they want to talk about are ideas that lift America up and make us better. It's what I call 'Vertical Politics'.

What the Iranians have said is, "we will wipe Israel off the face of the map, and we will bring death to America." When someone points a gun at your head and loads it, by God, you ought to take them seriously, and we need to take that seriously.

It's time for the government to scale back, not for people of faith to scale back!

I believe most Americans want their next President to remind them of the guy they work with, not the guy who laid them off.

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

Pray a little more, work a little harder, save, wait, be patient and, most of all, live within our means. That's the American way. It's not spending ourselves into prosperity or taxing ourselves into prosperity.

Politics has become unbelievably and unfortunately way too much about how much money is involved rather than what kind of ideas are involved.