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.
Voters are hungry for principled, conservative fighters - because the threat to our liberties from Washington never has been greater.
I'll tell you sort of an odd story: My music taste changed on 9/11. And it's very strange. I actually intellectually find this very curious. But on 9/11, I didn't like how rock music responded. And country music collectively, the way they responded, it resonated with me.
My touchstone for every question is the Constitution.
If I am elected president, every militant on the face of the planet will know, if you go and join ISIS, if you wage jihad on the United States of America, if you attempt to murder innocent Americans you are signing your death warrant.
There are people who wonder if faith is real. I can tell you, in my family there is not a second of doubt.
The Obama administration came into Utah and said, 'We're not going to listen to what the U.S. Supreme Court said. 'We, the federal government, are going to recognize marriages in the state of Utah and Utah state law explicitly does not recognize as marriage,' and that was really, in my view, an abuse of power.
What I have been talking about for many years is opportunity conservatism, that every policy should focus like a laser on easing the means of ascent up the economic ladder.
In the Senate, there is a wide spectrum of views on foreign policy.
I will always tell the truth and do what I said I would do.
There is no more an enthusiastic advocate of legal immigration in the U.S. Senate than I am, and that is a message that resonates powerfully in the Hispanic community.
It's not the job of the U.S. military to do nation-building or produce democratic utopias.
There is no room for Christians in today's Democratic Party.
There is overwhelming bipartisan support outside of Washington that we need to finally secure our borders, enforce our laws, and stop the problem of illegal immigration.
I've spent the past month in Washington, D.C., and it is terrific to be back in America.
We should allow people to purchase health insurance across state lines. That will create a true 50-state national marketplace which will drive down the cost of low-cost, catastrophic health insurance.
It's been federal law for over two centuries that the child of an American born abroad is a citizen - a natural born citizen.
I do not believe any president can bind a successor president to give up his fundamental role as protector of the country.
We need a commander in chief that speaks the truth. We will not defeat radical Islamic terrorism so long as we have a president unwilling to utter the words 'radical Islamic terrorism'.
President George Herbert Walker Bush ran as a strong conservative, ran to continue the third term of Ronald Reagan, continue the Ronald Reagan revolution. Then he raised taxes and in '92 ran as an establishment moderate - same candidate, two very different campaigns.
I grew up eating Cuban food all the time.
I think issues and substance, policy and vision and record should be the meat of politics.
I am far more a fan of aggressive entrepreneurs than I am of major CEOs. You look at major CEOs, and they are almost to a person quite timid. They don't act to defend the free market principles that are vital to growth.
It's been 80 years since the Senate has confirmed a Supreme Court nominee who was nominated during an election. And particularly when the court hangs in the balance, it makes no sense whatsoever to give Barack Obama the power to jam through a judge in the final election year.
The American president has a peculiar leadership responsibility to speak out for freedom.
The American free market system is the greatest engine for prosperity and opportunity that the world has ever seen. Freedom works.
Enough of these little kitty cats we keep sending to Washington. David Dewhurst will compromise every day in the U.S. Senate... It's what he's done every day in state government.
A lot of the Republicans wanted exactly what Barack Obama wanted, exactly what Nancy Pelosi wanted, exactly what Harry Reid wanted, which is to raise the debt ceiling, but they wanted to be able to tell what they view as their foolish, gullible constituents back home they didn't do it.
Thanks to President Obama for joining a unanimous Congress and signing S 2195 into law.
We need a president who is willing to uphold the law.
It is the job of our military to protect America and to hunt down and kill those who would threaten to murder Americans.
We are witnessing a great awakening. Millions of Texans, millions of Americans are rising up to reclaim our country, to defend liberty and to restore the Constitution.
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.
Do you know the rate of military enlistment among Hispanics is higher than any demographic in this country?
If we're going to win in 2016, we need a consistent conservative: someone who has been a fiscal conservative, a social conservative, a national security conservative.
My focus has been and will continue to be on doing my job.