Opening Statement

We're not going to round up people around the country and deport them. That's not -- I said during my primary campaign, time and again, we're not going to round up 12 million people, that includes the kids and the parents, and have…

This is a campaign about the 100 percent and over the last several years, you have seen greater and greater divisiveness in this country.

There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what.

We have a dead Border Patrol agent, nearly 2,000 AK-47s released, hundreds of dead Mexicans...

I just can't--I just fundamentally have trouble sending money directly to these governments without the accountability metrics in place.

I think one of the untold sad stories that we are going to look back here upon in Afghanistan years, decades from now is the waste, the fraud, the abuse, that we were exacerbating the problem, we were funneling money to the enemy, we were…

It's a campaign about the 100 percent and over the last several years, you've seen greater and greater divisiveness in this country. We had hoped to come back together but instead, you've seen us pull apart and politics has driven us apart…

I have demonstrated my capacity to help the 100 percent.

Well, there are 47 percent of the people who will vote for President Obama no matter what. All right. There are 47 percent who are with him, who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe the government…

the way you discern the intent of the legislature is by the language that they use.

I look at the Palestinians not wanting to see peace in any way for political purposes, committed to the destruction and elimination of Israel, and these thorny issues, and I say there's just no way.

There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what. All right, there are 47 percent who are with him who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe the government has the…

I wind up talking about how the thing which I find most disappointing in this president is his attack of one America against another America, the division of America, basically going after those who have been successful.

I recognize that those people who are not paying income tax are going to say, gosh, this -- this provision of -- that Mitt keeps talking about lowering income taxes, that's not going to be real attractive to them.

I look at the Palestinians not wanting to see peace in any way for political purposes, committed to the destruction and elimination of Israel, and these thorny issues, and I say there's just no way.

I will not divide America, as I have seen the president do over these past several months.

I believe in a two-state solution, which suggests there will be two states, including a Jewish state. I respect Israel's right to remain a Jewish state.