As we watch the world today, sometimes it seems that we`re at the mercy of events instead of shaping events. And a strong America`s essential to shape events, and a strong America, by the way, depends on a strong military.

Ronald Reagan was able to accomplish extraordinary purposes for our country without having to put our military forces into conflict.

If General Motors, Ford and Chrysler get the bailout that their chief executives asked for yesterday, you can kiss the American automotive industry goodbye. It won't go overnight, but its demise will be virtually guaranteed. Without that bailout, Detroit will need to drastically restructure itself. With it, the automakers will stay the course - the suicidal course of declining market shares, insurmountable labor and retiree burdens, technology atrophy, product inferiority and never-ending job losses. Detroit needs a turnaround, not a check.

I'd like to be the next president of the United States to support and help this great nation and to make sure that we all together remain America as the hope of the earth.

Syria is Iran's only ally in the Arab world. It's their route to the sea.

Planned Parenthood, we're going to get rid of that.

Every piece of legislation which came to my desk in the coming years as the governor, I came down on the side of preserving the sanctity of life.