Free enterprise has done more to lift people out of poverty, to help build a strong middle class, to help educate our kids, and to make our lives better than all the programs of government combined.
My view is that marriage is a relationship between a man and a woman. That's the position I've had for some time, and I don't intend to make any adjustments at this point... Or ever, by the way.
I went to Massachusetts to make a difference. I didn't go there to begin a political career running time and time again. I made a difference. I put in place the things I wanted to do.
The country already has a leader who divides us with the bitter politics of envy. We have to offer an alternative vision.
Make no mistake, in this campaign, I will offer the American ideals of economic freedom a clear and unapologetic defense.
I could have possibly beaten Senator McCain in the primary. Then I could have been the candidate who lost to Barack Obama.
It's opportunity. It's opportunity, not a check from government - it's opportunity that has always driven America and defined us as Americans.
Conservatism has had from its inception vigorously positive, intellectually rigorous agenda and thinking. That agenda should have in my three pillars: strengthen the economy, strengthen our security, and strengthen our families.
Religious freedom opens a door for Americans that is closed to too many others around the world. But whether we walk through that door, and what we do with our lives after we do, is up to us.
Central to America's rise to global leadership is our Judeo-Christian tradition with the vision of the goodness and possibilities of every human life.
America cannot continue to lead the family of nations around the world if we suffer the collapse of the family here at home.
John Kerry was always in front of the camera but not out doing the hard work.
Internationally, President Obama has adopted an appeasement strategy. He believes America's role as leader in the world is a thing of the past. I believe a strong America must - and will - lead the future.
Our nation is too different, too diverse to say that what works in Massachusetts is somehow going to be grabbed by the federal government, usurping the power of states and imposing a one-size-fits-all plan on the nation. That will not work.
Fourth, to assure every entrepreneur and every job creator that their investments in America will not vanish as have those in Greece, we will cut the deficit and put America on track to a balanced budget.
I think there's a character one has if you're a chief executive officer. Movies would suggest you're a bad person - if you're wealthy, if you've done well, oh, you must be bad. And frankly, winning the lottery doesn't change who you are; you're the same person inside. And I'm the same person I was as an 18-year-old who fell in love with Ann.
Presidents have an impact on the nature of our nation.
I can tell you, Obamacare, I have been stunned by the pratfalls associated with its implementation. I simply can't understand how a president that had such an effective technology campaign and has such support among the technology community members could have put in place the implementation of Obamacare as ineffectively as he did.
My whole life has been learning to lead, from my parents, to my education, to the experience I had in the private sector, to helping run the Olympics, and then of course helping guide a state.
I want America to be more like America, if you will. I want the songs, that patriotism we have.
I have a Missouri Fox Trotter. So mine's like a quarter horse, but just a much better gait - it moves very fast.
I'm a pretty analytical guy, all right?
The only way to win the White House, in my view, is to become a nominee of either the Republican or the Democrat Party, and simply running to be a spoiler would not give the American people, I think, the chance to express their own views about Mr. Trump or about Secretary Clinton.
If Bill Weld were at the top of the ticket, it would be very easy for me to vote for Bill Weld for president.
I think we should have the majority of the party's voters decide who they want as their nominee.
I'd like my grandkids to be able to watch PBS. But I'm not willing to borrow money from China, and make my kids have to pay the interest on that, and my grandkids, over generations, as opposed to saying to PBS, 'Look, you're going to have to raise more money from charitable contributions or from advertising.'
I read serious books, but every now and then, I read just for fun.
When you raise taxes on small business, from 35% to 40%, you will kill jobs.
Every year, virtually every governor balances the budget.
I actually have several busts of Ronald Reagan that have been presented to me.
I have five boys in the family, and it's constant competition, sport, humor, and practical jokes.
I wish everybody in the Republican Party had rejected Mr. Trump and chosen someone else.
I don't like vampires personally. I don't know any.
My red line is Iran may not have a nuclear weapon. It is inappropriate for them to have the capacity to terrorize the world. Iran with a nuclear weapon or with fissile material that can be given to Hezbollah or Hamas or others has the potential of not just destabilizing the Middle East.
Donald Trump has shown an extraordinary ability to show an understanding how our economy works, to create jobs for the American people.
The decision to withdraw our missile defense sites from Poland put us in greater jeopardy, in my view.
