I supported Arizona's immigration law by joining in that lawsuit to defend it. Every day I have Texans on that border that are doing their job.

We cannot afford four more years of this misguided socialist policies from President Obama and his administration.

Obama is a president, who I think is anti-jobs.

I don't want to look like Connecticut, no offense, I don't want to look like Oklahoma, I don't want to look like California. I want to be uniquely Texas. And that's not to diss anybody else.

We don't have to apologize for American exceptionalism or western values.

I come by my conservatism authentically, not by convenience. And I offer the American people a new direction.

I don't want to be the president of the United States. I do want to work with the governors across the country to make the states more pivotal, more powerful, as they should be.