The right way to reign in healthcare costs is not by applying more government and more controls and making it more like the post office, it's by making it more like a consumer-driven market.

My wife drives a couple of Cadillacs.

What we need to do with respect to the Middle East is strong, steady leadership, not wrong and reckless leadership that is all over the map.

It was the right decision to go into Iraq. I supported it at the time; I support it now.

I feel very deeply about the need to respect and tolerate people of different social - or sexual orientation. But at the same time, I believe marriage should be preserved as an institution for one man and one woman.

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.

I want to get America's private sector growing and I know how to do it.