I wish President Obama had succeeded because I want America to succeed.

This is all about creating good jobs for middle-income Americans, and it's a place where the President, frankly, has failed. His effort to put in place a series of liberal proposals he thought were historic kept his eye off the ball of getting the economy going again. It is the economy, and the American people aren't stupid. They want someone who can get this economy going again.

The multiculturalism movement must be unmasked for the fraud that it is. There are superior cultures, and ours is one of them.

My doctrine is as I've described, which is confidence in our cause, clarity in our purpose, and resolve in our might.

I want you to remember when our White House reflected the best of who we are, not the worst of what Europe has become.

Our example - and commitment - to freedom has changed the world. But along with the genius of our Declaration of Independence, our Constitution, and our Bill of Rights, is the equal genius of our economic system. Our Founding Fathers endeavored to create a moral and just society like no other in history, and out of that grew a moral and just economic system the likes of which the world had never seen. Our freedom, what it means to be an American, has been defined and sustained by the liberating power of the free enterprise system.

I supported the assault weapon ban.