This election presents a stark choice - we can continue down the road of the Obama Democrats, more and more spending, debt and government control of the economy, or we can return to the founding principles of our nation - free markets, fiscal responsibility and individual liberty.

What I'm encouraging President Trump and the Cabinet and congressional leaders to do, is let's keep our promises. Let's do what we said we would do, and that's what each and every one of you can hold all of us accountable for.

The only way to win the war is to move people's hearts and minds.

In Texas, we cook bacon a little differently than most folks...MACHINE-GUN BACON.

Barack Obama has said he doesn't believe in American leadership or America winning - he is wrong. America can win again and we will win again.

I looked at the pilgrims coming to America. In their first year, they decided to try a communist experiment. And the first year of the pilgrims, they established this socialistic concept: 'Well, we have all this land before us - let us all work it together.' Oh, how wonderful it sounded. 'Let us all work it together, and we will share in the produce of the land.' They almost starved to death! Almost half of them died, that very first year.

You think defending this nation [americans] is expensive, try not defending it. That's a lot more expensive.