We're not going to let our campaign be dictated by fact checkers.

I will not cut our military budget by a trillion dollars, which is a combination of the budget cuts Barack Obama has, as well as the sequestration cuts. That, in my view, is making our future less certain and less secure.

I'm running for office, for Pete's sake, I can't have illegals.

You can't have 23 million people struggling to get a job. You can't have an economy that over the last three years keeps slowing down its growth rate. You can't have kids coming out of college, half of them can't find a job today, or a job that's commensurate with their college degree. We have to get our economy going.

China has to understand America wants to trade with them. We want a world that's stable. We like free enterprise, but you got to play by the rules.

We will achieve North America energy independence by 2020, by taking full advantage of our oil, our gas, our coal, our renewables and our nuclear power. Abundant, inexpensive, domestic energy will not only create energy jobs, it will bring back manufacturing jobs.

Washington is broken. I know what it takes to get this country back, and will work with good Democrats and good Republicans to do that.