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

Those who have come to the United States illegally should not be given amnesty or an easier path to citizenship over those already in line.

I met a guy yesterday, 7 feet tall. Yeah, handsome, great big guy, 7 feet tall! ... I figured he had to be in sport, but he wasn't in sport.

Certainly, no church should be involved in trying to set the affairs of the nation.

I know what it takes to balance budgets. I have done it my entire life.

I'm a big believer in getting money from where the money is, and the money is in Washington. I learned from running the Olympics that you can get money there to help build economic opportunities. We actually got over $410 million from the federal government; that is a huge increase over anything ever done before. We did that by going after every agency of government. That kind of creativity I want to bring to everything we do (in Massachusetts).

Our nation is too different, too diverse to say that what works in Massachusetts is somehow going to be grabbed by the federal government, usurping the power of states and imposing a one-size-fits-all plan on the nation. That will not work.