For every day the government is shut down, it should be that we don't have to pay income tax that day because they're not working.

The Mexican government understands that when you turn 65, your ability to earn money diminishes. They don't want you kicked out of your house that you've worked your whole life for, no matter what that house is.

I'm against the draft. I believe we should have a professional military; it might be smaller, but it would be more effective.

Russia has two bases outside of Russia. America has 178 military bases throughout the world. Who's the aggressor?

I could never be a career politician, because I believe in telling the truth.

How come life in prison doesn't mean life? Until it does, we're not ready to do away with the death penalty. Stop thinking in terms of "punishment" for a minute and think in terms of safeguarding innocent people from incorrigible murderers.

I wish everyone in this country could magically leave the country for six months and view the United States from the outside for six months, and I think you'd see a new perspective to the people of this country.