It's fashionable in some circles to be pessimistic about America, about conservative solutions, about the Republican Party. I utterly reject that pessimism.

The TARP program was nevertheless necessary to keep banks from collapsing in a cascade of failures.

Mr. President, you were elected to lead. You chose to follow. And now it's time for you to get out of the way.

I like music of almost any kind - including this.

The embassy in Cairo put out a statement after their grounds had been breached. ... An apology for America's values is never the right course. ... The statement that came from the administration was - was a statement which is akin to apology and I think was a - a severe miscalculation.

When the world needs someone to do the really big stuff, you need an American.

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