We want everybody to act like adults, quit playing games, realize that it's not just my way or the highway.

In Texas, we hold very dear to intrusions against our personal liberty. We fight very hard against that.

We are going to trace more effectively, how these guns are ending up on the streets, to unscrupulous gun dealers, who often times are selling to straw purchasers. And cracking down on the various loopholes that exist in terms of background checks for children, the mentally ill.

The truth is that, in trying to get at terrorists who are in countries that either are unwilling or unable to capture those terrorists or disable them themselves, there are a lot of situations where the use of a drone is going to result in much fewer civilian casualties and much less collateral damage than if I send in a battalion of marines.

I think that the Democratic Party is a big tent, which means that there are positions I may not agree with.

Unless you're one of the first Americans, a Native American, you came from someplace else. Somebody brought you.

You have countries like India that have tried to help untouchables, with essentially affirmative-action programs, but it hasn't fundamentally changed the structure of their societies.