Make no mistake, in this campaign, I will offer the American ideals of economic freedom a clear and unapologetic defense.

I want you to remember when our White House reflected the best of who we are, not the worst of what Europe has become.

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.

Today's misery is real unemployment, home foreclosures and bankruptcies. This is the Obama Misery Index and its at a record high. Its going to take more than new rhetoric to put Americans back to work - its going to take a new president.

President Barack Obama has stood watch over the greatest job loss in modern American history. And that, my friends, is one inconvenient truth that will haunt this President throughout history.

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.

Even though I love solar and love wind, like most people do, I like the renewable sources, they alone are not going to get America energy independent.

Government is taking 40 percent of the GDP. And that's at the state, local and federal level. President Obama has taken government spending at the federal level from 20 percent to 25 percent. Look, at some point, you cease being a free economy, and you become a government economy. And we've got to stop that.

We have serious enemies and growing threats around the world. Unfortunately, we have an administration whose idea of a rogue state is Arizona.

Conservatives believe in providing Constitutional rights to our citizens, not to enemy combatants like Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.

Instead of leading the world by how much we borrow, it's time that we make sure we lead the world in how much we build and create and invest.

President Obama instituted the most anti-growth, anti-investment, anti-jobs measures that we have seen in our lifetime. Now he called his agenda ambitious, I call it reckless.

And a special thank you to the citizens of Massachusetts: You are paying all the taxes, creating all the jobs, raising all the children. This government is yours. Thank you for letting me serve you. I love this job.

Dad was an outstanding leader. He'd bring in top thinkers from a wide array of fields - how to fix the Detroit schools, for example. I watched him in these meetings. He listened and probed.

I think effective leaders typically are able to see the future to a certain degree and then try to take actions to shape it in some way.

President Obama wants to put free enterprise on trial.

I stand ready to lead us down a different path where we're lifted up by our desire to succeed, not dragged down by a resentment of success.

When you raise taxes on small business, from 35% to 40%, you will kill jobs.

The unemployment rate went down as I was governor of Massachusetts. We were losing jobs every month when I came into the state.

I've met people of great faith. I sat in the home of Billy Graham and in the residence of Cardinal Dolan and prayed with these men of God.

I think Dodd-Frank has contributed to a concentration of banking assets in the hands of a small number of banks.

America is not better off than it was $1.8 trillion dollars ago.

We conservatives don't have a corner on saying 'no'. We're just the ones who say it when it's the right thing to say.

The decision to withdraw our missile defense sites from Poland put us in greater jeopardy, in my view.