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

On one of the most personal matters of our lives, our health care, President Obama would turn decision making over to government bureaucrats. He forced through Obama-care and I will repeal it.

By making bold cuts in spending and commonsense entitlement reforms, we will make our government simpler, smaller, and smarter.

The TARP program was nevertheless necessary to keep banks from collapsing in a cascade of failures.

Since Castro took power, the Cuban people have been denied basic human freedoms. No freedom of religion, no freedom of the press, no political freedom. And the regime uses brutality and violence to suppress these freedoms and impose its will.

I think when people accuse you of a crime, you have every reason to go after them pretty hard.

The mantle of leadership for promoting the principles of peace has fallen to America. We didn't ask for it. But it's an honor that we have it.