“What we do to get the information we need is our business, and we shouldn’t necessarily be broadcasting to anybody what we’re going to do . . . There’s no such thing as a politically correct war.”

“Knowing what we know now, with faulty intelligence, and not having security be the first priority when we invaded [Iraq}, it was a mistake. I wouldn’t have gone in.”

“When I asked the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff what would be required militarily to destroy ISIS, he said there is no military solution, we need to change the conditions on the ground so that young men are not in poverty and susceptible to radicalization. That, with all due respect, is nonsesnse. What we need is a commander in chief who makes clear that if you join ISIS, you are signing your death warrant.”

“When you have people that are cutting Christians’ heads off … we don’t have time for tone. We have to go out and get the job done.”

“I think future generations will look back … and call us barbarians for murdering millions of babies.”

"Everywhere in the world that Hillary Clinton has touched is worse off today than it was before she and the president took office."

“I don’t want my marriage or my guns registered in Washington. And if people have an opinion, that’s a religious opinion that is heartly felt, obviously they should be allowed to practice that and no government should interfere with them.”

"One of the reasons why Social Security is in so much trouble is the only funding stream is from people who get a wage. … the fair tax transforms the process by which we fund Social Security and Medicare because the money paid at consumption is paid by everybody including illegals, prostitutes pimps, drug dealers all t he people that are freeloading off the system now. "

"I just went to a wedding of a friend of mine who just happens to be gay. Because someone think the way I do doesn’t mean I can’ t care about them or love them."

The next set of quotes are from the 5 p.m. debate featuring seven candidates who polled less favorably. “I know more world leaders on the state today than anyone running, with the possible exception of Hillary Clinton.”

“Planned Parenthood had better hope that Hillary Clinton wins the election, because I guarantee you that under [my presidency], Jan. 20, 2017, the Department of Justice, the IRS and everybody else we can send from the federal government will be going into Planned Parenthood.”

“It (same sex-mariage) is not settled law, any more than Dred Scott was settled law to Abraham Lincoln . . This is a rogue Supreme Court decision, just like Justice Roberts said. There is no constitutional basis for the Supreme Court’s decision.”

“We need to stand up and strongly and clearly tell the ayatollah, whoever the president is going to be, and I’ll promise you if it is me, the first thing I will do is tear up hat agreement with Iran.”

“I’m Catholic. I believe hat life begins at conception, but Roe v. Wade has been the law for 42 years, and I don’t think we should continue to try and change it.”

"We're going to combine all commercial activity and business into one place in the tax code and charge it 15%, which is going to suddenly make us competitive with the rest of the world. We're going to eliminate the death tax... It will cause the economy to grow, to explode to create more jobs."

"If you're running for President of the United States and you don't understand that we need more American ground forces in Iraq and that America has to be part of a regional ground force that will go into Syria and destroy ISIL in Syria then you're not ready to be commander in chief."