It's time to get real, folks. Hope and change ain't working. Hope and change is not a solution. Hope and change is not a job.

I ran for president in order to be able to try to change Washington D.C. from the inside. Our federal government is broken.

I am suspending my presidential campaign, because of the continued distractions, the continued hurt caused on me and my family, not because we are not fighters. Not because I'm not a fighter.

If I had been under ObamaCare, and a beaurocrat had been trying to tell me when I could get that CT scan, that would have delayed my treatment. I was able to get the treatment as fast as I could based upon my timetable, and not the government's timetable. That's what saved my life.

I ran for president in order to be able to try to change Washington D.C. from the inside. Our federal government is broken.