Now is the moment when we can stand up and say, 'I'm an American. I make my destiny. And we deserve better! My children deserve better! My family deserves better. My country deserves better!' So here we stand. Americans have a choice.

I'm not familiar precisely with what I said, but I'll stand by what I said, whatever it was.

We have made progress from where we were when President Obama took office, when the economy - our economy had just contracted almost by nine percent.

I was a severely conservative Republican governor.

Religious liberty is the first freedom in our Constitution. And whether the cause is justice for the persecuted, compassion for the needy and the sick, or mercy for the child waiting to be born, there is no greater force for good in the nation than Christian conscience in action.

Dodd-Frank was passed. ... This is the biggest kiss that's been given to New York banks I've ever seen. This is an enormous boon for them. There've been 122 community and small banks have closed since Dodd- Frank. ... I would repeal and replace it.

Syria is Iran's only ally in the Arab world. It's their route to the sea.