For one, I think as a missionary you gotta be stubborn. And you gotta try to be persuasive.

It's going to take a while for some of these things.

These are people who wanted to provide for their family and wanted a better life. We've got to have a secure border. But we've also, we've got to act compassionately and recognize labor markets as well. ... I've never thought that it's [path to citizenship] a bad thing. If somebody is going to be here for 20, 30 years, to give them some skin in the game, if you will, to hold out the prospect of citizenship.

Enhancing long term national security requires that we have a clear-eyed view of radical Islamic terrorism without ascribing radical Islamic terrorist views to all Muslims.

The country is facing a fiscal crisis, and the United States Senate is at the center of the debate about how to bring federal spending under control.

American leadership looks to the world and just as Lincoln did sees the family of man. Humanity is not a zero-sum game.

You can't always say what's popular and you ought to go with it. I think that's why the founders were concerned about direct democracy. That's why we have a republic and that's why we have representatives who who are supposed to look at the issues and to look out for the next generation as well.