I will spend the next four years rebuilding the foundation of a opportunity society led by free people and free enterprises.

I have paid taxes every year, a lot of taxes.

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

I will not cut our military budget by a trillion dollars, which is a combination of the budget cuts Barack Obama has, as well as the sequestration cuts. That, in my view, is making our future less certain and less secure.

China can be our partner, but that doesn't mean they can just roll all over us and steal our jobs on an unfair basis.

If you want a president who will make things better in the African-American community, you are looking at him.

The president (George W. Bush) says let's have private accounts, and take the surplus money that's being gathered now in Social Security and put it into private accounts. That works.