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.

Conservatives are winning offices, and champions of big government are cleaning out their desks right now.

I got a feeling that after six years of disappointment, of mediocrity and decline, a slow course correction is not what voters are going to be looking for in 2016.

There's places where a secure fence will work, and that strategic type fencing will work. But the idea that people can easily just stand up and say, oh, let's build a fence and be done with it, wipe our hands, it's going to secure the border, that's not reality.

I'll work every day to try to make Washington, D.C., as inconsequential in your life as I can.

We find ourselves in what I consider to be the most challenging, difficult, threatening time since World War II because of this War on Terror.