I love Texans. And Texas is clearly the crown jewel of Super Tuesday.

Imagine a legal immigration system that welcomes and celebrates those who come to achieve the American dream.

One of the most troubling aspects of the Rubio-Schumer Gang of Eight Bill was that it gave President [Barack] Obama blanket authority to admit refugees, including Syrian refugees without mandating any background checks whatsoever. Now we've seen what happened in San Bernardino. When you are letting people in, when the FBI can't vet them, it puts American citizens at risk.

I will sing their praises, I'll sing Donald's [Trump] praises and Marco's [Rubio] praises and everybody else's praises. But I'm going to keep the focus on substance and records. And there's a reason why they scream "Liar." Because when you point to their own records, their own voting records, their own words, they don't like their records because their records are inconsistent with what they're running on.

ISIS is gaining strength because the perception is that they're winning. And President [Barack] Obama fuels that perception.

Under President (George W.) Bush, prosecution of gun crimes was 30 percent higher than it is under President Obama.

You can't get to a balanced budget and begin to pay down debt and thus create jobs in this country if you don't have specific plans to make it work.