Moammar Gadhafi and the revolt against Gadhafi was not started by the United States. It was started by the Libyan people. And the reason why I argued we needed to get involved is because he was going to go one way or the other. And my argument then was proven true, and that is, the longer that civil war took, the more militias would be formed and the more unstable the country would be after the fact.

For fifty years now, we have tried big government. Yet too many people remain trapped in despair. Now, we must try a new way.

When was the last time you heard news accounts of a boatload of American refugees arrive on the shores of another country?

People have a right to be a Democrat. People have a right to be wrong. I know they're the same thing.

Conservatism has never been about fear or about anger. Not at its best. Do people have a right to be fearful of the future right now? Yes, because for over two decades, leaders in neither party have solved the problems before us.

After a migratory crisis on the border with minors coming over that you're seeing start up again now, after all these executive orders the President has issued. More than ever we need to prove to people that illegal immigration is under control.

Big government helps the people who have made it. It doesn't help the people who are trying to make it; it crushes the people who are trying to make it.