I would vote for a Muslim if he or she was the best candidate able to lead the country and defend our political values.

While I support a more comprehensive bill and hope a more extensive package will eventually past the Senate, I also am a realist and know that we must not let the perfect bill be the enemy of real reform.

Bashar Assad is a major cause of the refugees which are now flooding Europe and causing such consternation in the United States.

I don't doubt the sincerity of my Democratic friends. And they should not doubt ours.

There is no moral equivalent between that butcher and thug and KGB colonel Vladimir Putin and the United States of America, the country that Ronald Reagan used to call a shining city on a hill.

People want the truth, even if they disagree.

It is because I owe America more than she has ever owed me that I am a candidate for president to the United States.