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

I'm a strong believer in stating your position and not wavering.

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

For me, politics is not a career. For me, my career was being in business and starting a business and making it successful. My - my life's passion has been my family, my faith, and my country.

I try and make it to the word exactly what I said four years ago and what I said was that those who've come here illegally should not be given a special pathway, a favored pathway to become permanent residents merely by virtue of having come here illegally. That they should be in line with everybody - they should be given the opportunity to get in line with everybody else but they go to the back of the line.

No one is talking about restructuring Social Security or Medicare for current retirees or for those that are near retirement. For those under 55, the answer is let's talk about it.

I could have possibly beaten Senator McCain in the primary. Then I could have been the candidate who lost to Barack Obama.