We've got to strengthen our military long-term. We don't know what the world is going to throw at us down the road.

In recent years, we have seen the United States back away from pressuring the Castro regime, under the misguided view that placating them with an open hand would yield progress. That naivete has invited only more cruelty and oppression in return.

This, in my view, is the highest responsibility of the President of the United States, which is to maintain the safety of the American people.

There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what.

Religious freedom opens a door for Americans that is closed to too many others around the world. But whether we walk through that door, and what we do with our lives after we do, is up to us.

People of different faiths, like yours and mine, sometimes wonder where we can meet in common purpose, when there are so many differences in creed and theology. Surely the answer is that we can meet in service.

I'd like to be the next president of the United States to support and help this great nation and to make sure that we all together remain America as the hope of the earth.