Debates are set up for nothing more than to tear down the candidates. It's pretty hard to be able to sit and lay out your ideas and your concepts with a one-minute response.

I grew up in a house with no running water, 16 miles from the closest place that had a post office. I had a very parochial view of the world.

When it comes to conservative social issues, it saddens me when sometimes my fellow Republicans duck and cover in the face of pressure from the left. Our loudest opponents on the left are never going to like us so let's quit trying to curry favor with them.

Above all, let us pray for our children.

We're at the end of an era of failed leadership. We have been led by a divider [Barack Obama] who has sliced and diced the electorate, pitting American against American for political purposes.

Dark economic clouds are dissipating into an emerging blue sky of opportunity.

I'm actually for gun control -- use both hands.