I have a message from the Tea Party, a message that is loud and clear and does not mince words. We've come to take our government back.

You shouldn't have one opinion when you're running and another when you're president.

Well, let's be clear, I'm the only one on the stage who actually has a five-year budget that balances.

Inherent to socialism is the absence of choice. If I want to choose my own pretzels or books or iphones, they prevent me - they fine me, or imprison me. And those systems, not infrequently have historically, have developed into systems where there are pogroms.

If our freedom is taken, the American dream will wither and die.

I think there's a racial outcome to a lot of what goes in America, but I don't think race is always the reason.

I'll do anything to try to prevent John Bolton from getting any position, because I think his world view is naive. He believes we're going to spread democracy. We're going to topple governments everywhere and they're going to elect Thomas Jefferson. That's not the way it works in the Middle East.