Great leaders have an ability, a characteristic of analyzing very good talent, and empowering that talent.

We've got the wind at our back right now. Americans are waking up to the realities of their previous choices. We must keep America moving back to preeminence because our values and conservative ideas are the world's greatest hope.

We do not have to accept our current circumstances. We will change them. We are Americans. That's what we do.

It is through states that the American people get the job done every day, often in spite of a deeply flawed bureaucratic federal government.

I have no question that Newt Gingrich has the heart of a conservative reformer, the ability to rally and captivate the conservative movement.

Texas created more jobs in 2008 than the rest of the states - combined.

I mean I hate to be conspiratorial, but I mean how do you move that many people from Central America across Mexico and then into the United States without there being a fairly coordinated effort?