The grass roots are energized because the absolutely highest priority in the country in November is to defeat Barack Obama. I have spoken with literally thousands and thousands of tea-party activists - I have yet to meet a single tea-party leader that is not going to vote for Mitt Romney.

Democratic senators are more scared of their base than they are of the voters.

A path to citizenship for those who are here illegally in my view is unfair to those waiting sometimes a decades in line to come here.

I feel quite confident there will never be a plane on the face of the Earth with my name on it.

If you want a candidate to defend life and marriage and religious liberty and the Second Amendment and to appoint strong constitutionalists to the court, I'm the only candidate with that record. That's why conservatives are uniting behind our campaign. And if they want to continue with the attacks, that's their prerogative.

We are seeing Republicans uniting behind this [presidential] campaign [2016].

We will not defeat radical Islamic terrorists as long as we have a president [Barack Obama] unwilling to utter the words 'radical Islamic terrorists'.