Our plans protect freedom and opportunity, and our blueprint is the Constitution of the United States.

Since President Obama assumed office three years ago, federal spending has accelerated at a pace without precedent in recent history.

We're all a nation that believes we're children of the same god.

You can't control Ted Cruz for instance. No one has suggested you could do that and Marco Rubio, everyone tried to stop Marco Rubio from going against a sitting Republican governor in Florida. He did it anyway and won.

I believe that as people will look at me, they'll see a person who has dealt with a number of very difficult and challenging circumstances and that I have been able to successfully navigate through those and create greater strength and greater opportunity. I believe that people recognize that I'm someone who has confidence in America's cause.

Donald Trump is not the real deal. I think as Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio made that very clear.

Let's take energy, for instance. I understand that in some industries, the input cost of energy is a major factor in whether an industry is going to locate in the United States or go elsewhere. So, when, at Bain Capital, we started a new steel company called Steel Dynamics in Indiana, the cost of energy was a very important factor to the success of that enterprise.