A Leader Has The Capacity Of Vision,

Iraq Is Fragile And May Fall Back Into A Devastating Setting. We're Not Making The Kind Of Progress In Afghanistan That Had Been Promised. And Our Esteem Around The World Has Fallen. I Can't Think Of A Major Country. It's Hard To Think Of A Single Country That Has Greater Respect And Admiration For America Today Than It Did Five Years Ago When Barack Obama Became President. And That's A Very Sad, Unfortunate State Of Affairs.

When The President Is Making It Harder To Mine Coal, To Use Coal, To Take Advantage Of Our Gas Resources, To Make It Harder To Get Our Oil Resources - All Those Things Combine To Make Our Cost Of Energy Higher Than It Needs To Be, And It Drives Away Enterprises From This Country. It Sends It To Places That Have Lower-cost Energy.

A Competitive Primary Does Not Divide Us, It Prepares Us And We Will Win.

We Have A Long-standing Tradition In This Country To Follow The Advice Of Senator Vandenberg, Which Is That Politics Ends At The Water's Edge.

Look, I Was An Independent During The Time Of Reagan-bush. I'm Not Trying To Return To Reagan-bush.