I served on the Armed Services Committee for 18 years and we must lead, or the job won't get done, unfortunately, for our country.

To allow the Russian activity to go unresponded to is not acceptable.

If the [Republican] party wants to have an ideological debate, it's never going to win anything in a major way.

I think it could get passed in a lame duck? Probably tough. But impossible? No, or I wouldn't be wasting my time. It's going to take some leadership, and it takes a time where leadership is more important than people's political career at times.

When you ask people, do they believe that we ought to have trade, I think people understand it's important.

Libya was a terrible mistake. You know, frankly, that's something that people ought to be thinking about in regard to Hillary [Clinton]. You know, they talk about Benghazi, which is very legitimate. Of course it is. But we should never have deposed [Muamar] Gaddafi. That was a terrible mistake.

I don't want my marriage or my guns registered in Washington. And if people have an opinion, it's a religious opinion that is heartly felt, obviously they should be allowed to practice that and no government should interfere with them.