Rick Santorum obliquely referenced reports Tuesday about his 2008 remarks at Ava Maria University in Florida in which he claimed Satan has his "sights" on the U.S. in a battle of good versus evil, and said he won't be distracted from his campaign message.

"You guys, these are questions that are not relevant to what's being discussed in America today. What we're talking about in America today is trying to get America growing. That's what my speeches are about, that's what we're going to talk about in this campaign. If you want to dig up old speeches of talking to a religious group, go right ahead and do so, but I'm gonna stay on message, I'm gonna talk about things that Americans want to talk about which is creating jobs, getting our country safer and secure, and yeah, taking on the forces around this world who want to do harm to America. You bet I'm gonna take them on," he said in a post-speech media scrum in Phoenix.

Fox News' Nick Kalman contributed to this report.