Sometimes when people say things, we should actually believe what they say.

It is a serious undertaking and yes, we do need more fencing and we do need to use technology, and we do need more border control. And we need to have better cooperation by the way with local law enforcement. There are 800,000 cops on the beat, they ought to be trained to be the eyes and ears for law enforcement for the threat against terror as well as for immigration.

We can rewrite history all you want, but the simple fact is that we`re in a much more unstable place because America pulled back.

My belief is that most people are conservative. They just haven't been asked yet.

I just think people, when they get elected, they ought to serve. They ought to do their jobs.

I'm not an expert on the ways of Washington [but] it makes no sense to me that we're not funding control of our border.

Low standards are a tactic that takes pressure off teachers unions by accepting mediocrity and failure for kids.