You can not be a conservative if you're going to keep promoting new programs that you're not going to pay for.

The key to winning any general election in the USA is to excite your base and then expand your base - get independent voters and voters who haven't been voting for your party to come to your party.

My grandfather would live to see his children become doctors and ministers, accounts and professors.

We don't have enough money to rebuild our own country if we're rebuilding everyone else's countries.

40 percent of people who come to visit America on a visa overstay their visa and we have no idea where they are. On 9/11, at least 2 of the hijackers were here on visa. They were traveling back and forth to the Middle East. And we really had no idea where they were or what they were doing. And they were overstaying their visa. So there are problems I think in the immigration system that need to be fixed for our safety.

No president has the right to say he is judge, jury and executioner.

And when the time is right, I hope that African Americans will again look to the party of emancipation, civil liberty, and individual freedom.