I'm not going to say to Putin that he'll get more flexibility after the election. After the election he'll get more backbone.

Every piece of legislation which came to my desk in the coming years as the governor, I came down on the side of preserving the sanctity of life.

Perhaps religious conscience upsets the designs of those who feel that the highest wisdom and authority comes from government.

We can be deeply thankful that we live in a land where reason and religion are friends and allies in the cause of liberty, joined against the evils and dangers of the day. And you can be certain of this: Any believer in religious freedom, any person who has knelt in prayer to the Almighty, has a friend and ally in me. And so it is for hundreds of millions of our countrymen: we do not insist on a single strain of religion - rather, we welcome our nation's symphony of faith.

I'm not going to apologize for being successful.

We believe in individual initiative, personal responsibility, opportunity, freedom, small government, the Constitution. These principles, these American principles are key to getting our economy back to being successful and leading the world.

It's not government that makes business successful. It's not government investments that makes businesses grow and hire people.