Politicians make promises and they don't do what they said they would do: the reason why so many politicians in Washington are unhappy with me.

You know flexibility is a good thing but it shouldn't - you shouldn't be flexible on core principles.

The essence of the conservative message should be we want a dynamic nation where anybody with nothing can achieve anything.

Preventing people from illegally immigrating to the United States should be the primary purpose of Customs and Border Protection.

One of the things that I intend to devote a lot of time to in the coming years is continuing to try to move people's hearts and minds with humor, with stories, with anecdotes, with facts and information.

Theirs is the party that ... responds to the death of Americans at Benghazi by asking, What difference does it make?

Remember the lessons of history - if we don't learn from history, we're bound to repeat it.