I'm not a politician by profession. I am a citizen who decided I had to be personally involved in order to stand up for my own values and beliefs. My candidacy is based on my record, and for that matter, my entire life.

My dream is to see the day when nuclear weapons will be banished from the face of the Earth.

The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.

There can be no security anywhere in the free world if there is no fiscal and economic stability within the United States.

Don't let anyone tell you that America's best days are behind her - that the American spirit has been vanquished. We've seen it triumph too often in our lives to stop believing in it now.

A people free to choose will always choose peace.

Generations hence, parents will take their children to these woods to show them how the land must have looked to the first Pilgrims and pioneers. And as Americans wander through these forests, climb these mountains, they will sense the love and majesty of the Creator of all of that.