Iran has essentially mastered all of the complex science and technology that they need to have a completely indigenous nuclear weapons program. That means that our options on Iran are extremely limited, to regime change or as a last resort, the use of force.

A strong State Department to me means a corps of career officials who believe that their job is to advocate America's interests and who are trained in effective advocacy, not schooled in accommodation.

America needs an adult in the White House who knows how to deal with China.

The Nobel Peace Prize has become hopelessly politicized. I think it cheapens the prize itself.

Well, I'm a libertarian conservative, so I believe in limited government/maximum individual freedom.

Let me ask, who died and made him king? Who gave him the authority to endanger 300 million Americans? That's not the way it works, and if he thinks he can get away with that, he's got another think coming.

Texas is a big state. It's a major force in the Republican Party.