. . . I hope that when you're my age, you'll be able to say as I have been able to say: We lived in freedom, we lived lives that were a statement, not an apology.

For one, we very much need in any immigration bill - we need protection for people who are in this country and who have not become citizens, for example, that they are protected and legitimized and given permanent residency here. And we want to see some things of that kind added to the immigration bill.

I am not a scientist.

From my mother I learned the value of prayer, how to have dreams and believe I could make them come true.

But the simple truth is that we've lost control of our own borders, and no nation can do that and survive.

When a business or an individual spends more than it makes, it goes bankrupt. When government does it, it sends you the bill. And when government does it for 40 years, the bill comes in two ways: higher taxes and inflation. Make no mistake about it, inflation is a tax and not by accident.

Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man.