When it comes to immigration reform, now is the time ... I've never seen a better political environment ... I'm not doing immigration reform to solve the Republican Party's political problem. I'm trying to save our nation from, I think, a shortage of labor and a catastrophic broken system.

There's a lot of things we can do to balance out what Obama's done and going forward show the American people the Republican Party can govern. I want a coalition of tea party people, independents, moderate Democrats trying to find a way to move this country forward before we become Greece.

Is any blogger out there saying anything—do they deserve First Amendment protection? These are the issues of our times.

I think the worst thing in the world is to have the courts decide who to target in the war on terrorism. And courts are not military commanders.

The legal system in Afghanistan is very immature and porous.

What's going on in the Senate is kind of a politics of escalation. We're getting sort of like the Mideast: pay back everybody when you're in charge.

The next president of the United States needs to figure one thing out quickly - how to be commander in chief. And I think I could do that.