I think it's an enormous blessing to be the child of an immigrant who fled oppression, because you realize how fragile liberty is and how easily it can be taken away.

The more liked you are in Washington, the less liked you are in the rest of America, and vice versa.

Every candidate is going to come to you and say they are the most conservative person that ever lived.

You don't have to solve every problem at once.

Every day, I come home with a spring in my step. We've got to work together to stop the Obama agenda and take this country back.

If you can stitch together that kind of coalition with young people, bringing together conservatives and evangelicals - and I will tell you, in Iowa, we also won Reagan Democrats, working-class voters.

He has attempted to muddy the waters, but I think anyone that watched the battle that we had - you know, there was a time for choosing, as Ronald Reagan put it, where there was a battle over amnesty. And some chose, like Sen. Marco Rubio, to stand with Barack Obama and Chuck Schumer and support a massive amnesty plan.