When has a Democratic political activist been poisoned by the GOP, or vice versa? We are not the same as #Putin.

Being a conservative can never be about simply an attitude. Being a conservative cannot simply be about how long you're willing to scream, how angry you're willing to be or how many names you're willing to call people. That is not conservative.

I don't want there to be millions of people that are permanently barred from every becoming Americans.

I haven't thought about aspirations for the future. I like politics, I like serving the public, and we'll see if God offers us another opportunity in the future.

That thought process that somehow other people have to be worse off in order for you to be better off does not work. People get on boats people jump fences to get away from that kind of thought process.

The Democrats never fight about who is more like Jimmy Carter.

Government doesn't have to be the enemy, but too much government has produced a new kind of inequality in America: opportunity inequality.