Americans different in some maybe thoughts or emphasis still have the same ideas. They want a government that lets them be free, that leaves them alone, that doesn't interrupt and interfere with every aspect of their life, that lets them go to work and keep more of what they've worked hard to have.

I've always suggested if you can't stand the sight of your own blood, don't run for office.

So when we're really addressing issues like poverty, you can't do that without addressing the real driver of some of those, which is stable homes, families. So that's why to me those issues are important. They're not frivolous. They're critical economic issues.

We ought to be people of compassion. And being people of compassion means we deny ourselves, and our self centeredness.

Pro-life includes improving life after birth.

We ask why there's violence in our school but we've systematically removed God from our schools. Should we be so surprised that schools have become such a place of carnage? Because we've made it a place where we don't want to talk about eternity, life, what responsibility means, accountability.

The money paid at consumption is paid by everybody, including illegals, prostitutes, pimps, drug dealers.