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I want our party to step up its efforts to reflect and champion the concerns of everybody who has reached the second half of their lives.

I want to make sure that ours is a party that is focusing on both middle class issues and not becoming a party of our two coasts.

I hope that people will see that we don't have to sit by the sidelines and watch as the two major parties limit their choices to slightly different flavors of the status quo. It is, in fact, possible to join the fray, stand up for principles and offer a real alternative.

I have a voice: I want to share my beliefs about how the conservative movement and the Republican party can regain its footing, because we've lost our way.

We're not a homogeneous party, anymore than the Republicans are. But we are a party that I think has a plan to take us forward.

Never again can the Republican Party simply write off entire segments of our society because we assume our principles have limited appeal. They have broad appeal. We need to be larger than that.

I'd like to see a Republican Party that embraces a lot of the libertarian ideas.

We can bring people together in an era rife with partisanship and divide.

We have always been a great national party, with views on all the main issues. We recognise that what matters to people most are those things that affect their daily lives: schools, hospitals, transport and law and order and we have plenty to say about them.