If you're looking for a slick politician or a guy with great teleprompter skills, we already have that. He's destroying our economy. I'm a doer, not a talker.

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

Our shared conservative values, our belief in the individual is the great hope of our nation.

Look, Orrin Hatch is not a bad guy. But he is an old guy, and he's a lifer politician.

I stand before you today as a disciplined conservative Texan, a committed Republican and a proud American, united with you to restoring our nation and revive the American dream.

Somebody has to tell the E.P.A. that we don't need you monkeying around and fiddling around and getting in our business with every kind of regulation you can dream up. You're doing nothing more than killing jobs. It's a cemetery for jobs at the E.P.A.