I'm all about job creation. That's what I've done for ten years as the governor of Texas, and that's what I'm focused on.

We stand up and proudly proclaim that Washington is not our caretaker and we reject a state, in Margaret Thatcher's words, a state that takes too much from us to do too much for us.

We believe in government involvement that leads to independence: good schools, quality roads and the best health care.

Even if an alcoholic is powerless over alcohol once it enters his body, he still makes a choice to drink. And, even if someone is attracted to a person of the same sex, he or she still makes a choice to engage in sexual activity with someone of the same gender.

But if you say that we should not educate children who have come into our state for no other reason than they've been brought there by no fault of their own, I don't think you have a heart. We need to be educating these children, because they will become a drag on our society.

Those jobs flee other states because of factors like excessive taxation, punitive regulation and frivolous lawsuits.

It's time to believe again in the potential of private enterprise set free from the shackles of over-bearing federal government.