The Holy Spirit is our comforter, our teacher. That's why, in prayer, we can ask the Lord to open up Scripture and make it come alive to us, to open our understanding. He left his Spirit with us until we join him in Heaven.

You can't take money from the taxpayers out of the treasury to give it to pay off your political donors. That's corruption to do that.

I pledge to you I'm not a talker. I'm a doer.

I come from a modest background. I put myself through college and law school and a postdoctorate program in tax law.

Morals are built on religious faith. Virtue is built on morality and influences a culture.

Voting has not been tough for me, for the most part, because there's guideposts about what will bring about the greatest amount of happiness for the greatest amount of people.

I think that it's important that the American people know that Barack Obama didn't have a mild association with Bill Ayers, he had a very strong association with Bill Ayers. Bill Ayers is not someone that the average American wants to see their president have an association with.

It's tough to find a place not to like in Switzerland.

Literally, if we took away the minimum wage - if conceivably it was gone - we could potentially virtually wipe out unemployment completely because we would be able to offer jobs at whatever level.

Small business is the backbone of our economy. I'm for big business, too. But small business is where the jobs are generated.

I was born into a Christian family and brought up in a Lutheran church. My faith has been the center point of my life, really, since I was a child, but at 16 years of age, I fully surrendered my life over to Christ. At that point, as a teenager, I began to grasp the concept of Christ's true love and forgiveness.

We're a compassionate nation.

I would argue it should be a policy to defeat ISIS where they are, where they exist and prevent them from coming into the United States.

This policy of containment is not a winning strategy. We need a policy to defeat and destroy ISIS once and for all.

I am extremely concerned that Syrian and ISIS recruiters can use the Internet at lightning speeds to recruit followers in the United States with thousands of followers in the United States and then activate them to do whatever they want to do.

Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula is the largest external operation force within al Qaeda.

I don't think Mr. Putin has our best interests at heart.

We cannot stop what we cannot see.

First and foremost, my job is to protect the American people.

Do we want a back door in an iPhone where the government can go in to track movements if they have probable cause? I know the director of the FBI and local law enforcement want that capability.

Unfortunately, cancer is the number one killer of children in this country today, and it destroys not only these innocent victims, but their families as well.

I know there's a lot of discussion about building a 2000-mile wall. I think we need to complete the Secure Fencing Act, but we need greater technology and aviation aspects down on the Southwest border so we can see the threat from the sky. Until you can see it, you don't know where it's coming from and how to correctly stop it.

We talk a lot about operational control, and that's having a better understanding of who's coming in and who's leaving, what the threat really is. We're never really going to get that.

We're making it more difficult to obtain the necessary ingredients to produce meth and tightening criminal penalties for those who deal in this dangerous drug.