It's essential for a president to show strength from the very beginning, to make it very clear what is acceptable and not acceptable.

My view is that marriage is a relationship between a man and a woman. That's the position I've had for some time, and I don't intend to make any adjustments at this point... Or ever, by the way.

I look around the world, I don't see America's influence growing around the world. I see our influence receding, in part because of the failure of Barack Obama to deal with our economic challenges at home; in part because of our withdrawal from our commitment to our military in the way I think it ought to be; in part because of the turmoil with Israel.

Real change isn't measured with words, it is measured with real achievements.

It's not appropriate to joke about the Ku Klux Klan.

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

Perhaps religious conscience upsets the designs of those who feel that the highest wisdom and authority comes from government.