Now is the time to act or get stuck with a bland, boring, career politician who will lose to Barack Obama.

Earlier in my political career, I had the opportunity to read the speech, and I almost threw up.

America's honor, your honor is at stake. Go out and preserve the greatest country in the history of the world.

I grew up in a steel town of Western Pennsylvania, outside of Pittsburgh, and when I announced for president, I announced from the factory floor. When I talk about making America the number one manufacturer again in the world, it's not just talk. When I talk about having the opportunity for people to rise again, it's not just because it polls well.

I would be saying to the Iranians, you either open those facilities, begin to dismantle them and make them available to inspectors or we will degrade those facilities though air strikes. And make it very public that we are doing that. Iran would not get a nuclear weapon under my watch.

In 1923 there were no government benefits for immigrants except one: Freedom!

I looked at No Child Left Behind after it was enacted and saw what happened and saw the expansion of the federal government and the role of education. And I said, you know, that was - that's not what I believe in.