“The most important thing of all is my parents were able to leave all four of their children better off than themselves. That story has a name, it’s called the American dream.”

The idea that more taxes and more government spending is the best way to help hardworking middle class taxpayers – that’s an old idea that’s failed every time it’s been tried.

[Donald Trump twitts] “Lightweight Marco Rubio was working hard last night.” This is true. “The problem is he’s chalker and once a chalker, always a choker,” I guess that’s what he meant to say. He spelled choker, c-h-o-k-e-r.

National security – the military is the first thing we should spend money on. You have to fully fund that first. And then you should be paying for everything else.

The government can’t change the weather.

Despite our differences, I know that both Republicans and Democrats love America.

Unfortunately, President Obama’s failed policies of new regulations, higher taxes, and Obamacare and his anti-business rhetoric have hit Hispanics especially hard. Big government really hurts those who are trying to make it.

And then we need a government that has the discipline to take that additional revenue and use it to pay down the debt and never grow it again.

We need American foreign policy that tells the world very clearly that it is bad to be our enemy and good to be our friend.

At a time when the American family is threatened as never before, redefining it away from the union of one man and one woman only promises to weaken it as a child-rearing, values-conveying institution.

The way to turn our economy around is not by making rich people poorer, it’s by making poor people richer.

The triad is our ability of the United States to conduct nuclear attacks using airplanes, using missiles launched from silos or from the ground, and also from our nuclear subs’ ability to attack. And it’s important – all three of them are critical. It gives us the ability at deterrence.

First, the federal government, one of the fundamental responsibilities that it has is to protect the nation’s health and wellbeing. And this [Zika virus] is a threat to public health in the United States. It is a very serious disease.

No community values entrepreneurship and small business more than the Hispanic community.

Government’s role in society is to protect these rights and ensure that we are safe from religious persecution and discrimination.

American nation was not founded on political principles. This nation was founded on spiritual principles.

I think God has blessed us. He has blessed the Republican Party with some very good candidates. The Democrats can’t even find one.

So for me it’s very good to just be able to re-charge and just disappear and escape from reality and that’s usually when I write most of my lyrics and my songs.

You work so hard at something to make sure that it’s very pure and very genuine and very steadfast to who you are, so creative control for me is a big one.

My characters say things to each other that I get accused of not being able to say to my girlfriend.

But we have these problems in our region, and nobody has been able to resolve them.

Just like surface-to-air missiles in Afghanistan were able to change the balance of power there.

I’m just a giant film fan, so I love action movies out of all kinds of movies. As a film geek, it’s amazing to be able to shoot this stuff.

Most of what was released has always been garbage and some has been able to get through and last.

You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.