At the end of the day after a few speeches and a lot of campaign stops, I'm more energized than drained.

When sperm and egg unite, something goes from inanimate to animate. It is life.

We can be deeply thankful that we live in a land where reason and religion are friends and allies in the cause of liberty, joined against the evils and dangers of the day. And you can be certain of this: Any believer in religious freedom, any person who has knelt in prayer to the Almighty, has a friend and ally in me. And so it is for hundreds of millions of our countrymen: we do not insist on a single strain of religion - rather, we welcome our nation's symphony of faith.

Conservatives believe in providing Constitutional rights to our citizens, not to enemy combatants like Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.

I'm not going to say to Putin that he'll get more flexibility after the election. After the election he'll get more backbone.

I'm not going to wear rose-colored glasses when it comes to Russia, or Mr. Putin.

Growing our economy means allowing individuals, and particularly those in the middle class, to be able to keep more of their money. It also means that people in the middle class and modest incomes to be able to pay for their retirement, to get a down payment for a home, to send a child to college.