Those policies - more taxes, more regulation, more debt, more spending, more government - will make American worse. It just will, in my view.

Basically [I become a Republican], pretty early. I had an English teacher that got me to subscribe to the National Review.

People of my generation knew we needed to move beyond that, the racial division and segregation and unsustainable social relations, that were unfair to millions of people. But it didn't mean that we were going to become a big government liberal.

We need to give them [the Justice Department] as much power as we can without eroding fundamental liberties.

They [Republican voters] believe in a foreign policy that puts America first: Give me a break. And so a lot of our drift within our party has gotten away from that.

There's a lot of overconfidence about this bill. We're going to expose it. It will not pass.

Politicians are supposed to be empathetic. And, yes, I am, actually.