The American free market system is the greatest engine for prosperity and opportunity that the world has ever seen. Freedom works.

I want you to take a good, hard look at me, America, because this is exactly what you’ve got coming.

It's just like calling homosexuals 'gays.' Gay means happy! You know, it's just to try to dilute it so that it becomes socially acceptable, and if you say anything against homosexual marriage or anything - 'Oh, you're not tolerant.' So we're supposed to prostitute our principles, on behalf of tolerance.

It's going to take a new generation of courageous conservatives to help make America great again.

I offer myself as a leader to the people of this country because I think they're looking for solutions, not lawyers arguing over laws or entertainers throwing out sound bites that draw media attention. We need to solve the problem.

President [Barack] Obama and Hillary Clinton are proposing bringing tens of thousands of Syrian refugees to this country when the head of the FBI has told Congress they cannot vet those refugees.

My touchstone for every question is the Constitution.