To win that war [with radical Islamic extremists] we need a commander-in-chief, not a professor of law standing at the lectern.

I might add that in small towns, we don't quite know what to make of a candidate who lavishes praise on working people when they are listening, and then talks about how bitterly they cling to their religion and guns when those people aren't listening.

Common sense tells us that the government's attempts to solve large problems more often create new ones. Common sense also tells us that a top-down, one-size-fits-all plan will not improve the workings of a nationwide health-care system that accounts for one-sixth of our economy.

I am one to believe that life starts at the moment of conception.

I'm the mayor, I can do whatever I want until the courts tell me I can't.'

I believe that there is great hope and great potential for every country to be able to live and be protected with inalienable rights that I believe are God-given.

We have a President, perhaps for the very first time since the founding of our republic, who doesn't appear to believe that America is the greatest earthly force for good the world has ever known.