Let's stand up. Let's speak with pride about our morals and our values and redouble our effort to elect more conservative Republicans.

Reforming public education, cutting property taxes, fixing adult and child protective services and funding our budget can all occur when Democrats and Republicans engage in consensus and cooperation - not cynicism and combat.

And I have a message for the liberals and the defenders of the status quo: we're just getting started.

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

I do agree that the science is not settled on this. The idea we would put Americans' economy in jeopardy based on scientific theory that is not settled yet to me is nonsense. Just because you have a group of scientists who stood up and said this is the fact... Galileo got outvoted for a spell. To put Americans' economic future in jeopardy, asking us to cut back in areas that would have monstrous economic impact on this country is not good economics and I would suggest is not necessarily good science.

George W. Bush did an incredible job in the presidency, defending us from freedom.

Armed and law-abiding citizens are a greater deterrent to violent crime than 1,000 laws passed by Congress.