Growing our economy means allowing individuals, and particularly those in the middle class, to be able to keep more of their money. It also means that people in the middle class and modest incomes to be able to pay for their retirement, to get a down payment for a home, to send a child to college.

At the end of the day after a few speeches and a lot of campaign stops, I'm more energized than drained.

I like being able to fire people.

We're all a nation that believes we're children of the same god.

I'm not familiar precisely with what I said, but I'll stand by what I said, whatever it was.

We have to stand for our principles, stand for our allies, stand for a strong military and stand for a stronger economy.

My dad, as you probably know, was the governor of Michigan and was the head of a car company. But he was born in Mexico... and had he been born of, uh, Mexican parents, I'd have a better shot at winning this. But he was unfortunately born to Americans living in Mexico. He lived there for a number of years. I mean, I say that jokingly, but it would be helpful to be Latino.