My dad had been born in Mexico and his family had to leave during the Mexican revolution.

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 think an amnesty program... which is what the president (George W. Bush) has proposed... those are reasonable proposals.

PETA is not happy that my dog likes fresh air.

China has an interest that's very much like ours in one respect, and that is they want a stable world. They don't want war. They don't want to see protectionism. They don't want to see the world break out into various forms of chaos.

The greatest threat that the world faces is a nuclear Iran...

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.