[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 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.

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

[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.

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

I don't think there's any question that someday somebody who is innocent will be executed in this country again.