There are a lot of messages that need to be sent to the criminal who is out there dealing in this on the streets of the United States. We need to send the message of swiftness and certain punishment.

We demand privacy, yet we glorify those that break into computers.

A trial without witnesses, when it involves a criminal accusation, a criminal matter, is not a true trial.

I respect a system that says we're going to put every bit of pressure on anybody we have to put it on to get to the drug dealer who is bringing his poison into the country.

You can't expect law enforcement to provide the solution to the drug problem.

[A new all-encompassing national identification system] contradicts some of our most sacrosanct American principles of personal liberty and expectations of privacy and is far in excess of what is needed to provide us with the security and protections we all want.

I don’t believe in involving the government in enforcing or encouraging the lifestyle of gays and homosexuals.