I think Barack Obama is a socialist. I think he cares for his country - don't get me wrong about that - but I think he truly misunderstands what this country was based upon, the values that America was based upon, which was free enterprise and having the ability to risk your capital and having a chance to have a return on your investment.

One of the reasons that Im running for president is I want to make sure that every young man and woman who puts on the uniform of the United States respects highly the president of the United States.

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

I may have the genetic coding that Im inclined to be an alcoholic, but I have the desire not to do that, and I look at the homosexual issue the same way.

I hope I am the Tim Tebow of the Iowa caucuses.

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.

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