The path I lay out is not one paved with ever increasing government checks and cradle to grave assurance that government will always be the solution. If this election is a bidding war for who can promise the most goodies and the most benefits, I'm not your president. You have that president today.

I am in favor of stem-cell research. I am not in favor of creating new human embryos through cloning.

I always enjoy listening to Rush Limbaugh. I often agree with him. Sometimes I disagree with him.

A competitive primary does not divide us, it prepares us and we will win.

Our veterans know the meaning of service better than anyone else and they aren't about to quit working when they come home. The best reward we can provide our vets for their service isn't a medal or a check; it's a livelihood and a means of supporting themselves and their families.

When the President is making it harder to mine coal, to use coal, to take advantage of our gas resources, to make it harder to get our oil resources - all those things combine to make our cost of energy higher than it needs to be, and it drives away enterprises from this country. It sends it to places that have lower-cost energy.

If Israel is attacked, America has their back, not just diplomatically, not just culturally, but militarily.