President Obama instituted the most anti-growth, anti-investment, anti-jobs measures that we have seen in our lifetime. Now he called his agenda ambitious, I call it reckless.

I will not create jobs or hold jobs that kill people, and that plant - that plant kills people.

America cannot continue to lead the family of nations around the world if we suffer the collapse of the family here at home.

Mom and Dad were married 64 years. And if you wondered what their secret was, you could have asked the local florist - because every day Dad gave Mom a rose, which he put on her bedside table. That's how she found out what happened on the day my father died - she went looking for him because that morning, there was no rose.

America's going to come back, and for that to happen, we're going to have to have a president who can work across the aisle.

The largest portion of our state budget is Health and Human Services. It will grow by approximately $500 million. A half a billion dollars is a very big number.

You balance the budget by restraining the growth of government and encouraging the growth of the private sector.