It is essential for America to understand what our mission is in Iran, and that is to dissuade Iran from having a nuclear weapon through peaceful and diplomatic means.

I don't like to have the federal government start pushing its weight deeper and deeper into our schools. Let the states and localities do that.

I think when people accuse you of a crime, you have every reason to go after them pretty hard.

I happen to believe that if we want to replace a lifetime politician like Barack Obama, who had no experience leading anything... We've got to nominate a leader if we're going to replace someone who is not a leader.

When you give a speech you don't go through a laundry list, you talk about the things that you think are important.

We have a president, who I think is a nice guy, but he spent too much time at Harvard, perhaps.

Religious freedom opens a door for Americans that is closed to too many others around the world. But whether we walk through that door, and what we do with our lives after we do, is up to us.