I have long believed taxpayers make better use of their money than the government ever could.

When it comes to dividing Americans on the basis of their gender, I know a little something about the subject.

I think when you've been in office for a long time, you have a record, and that record is fair game.

Saying youre from Texas makes you kind of proud.

We are battling fanatics who kidnap and behead civilians and shoot fleeing children in the back. There can be no dialogue with such people, and the American people understand this.

The traditional role of the Senate has been to be the adult in the room.

People can't imagine an enemy that would cut someone's head off before a video camera and spread it out across the world. But that has happened with the kind of enemy we are now facing.