I support workplace clean air. But a federal ban on smoking would mean that you couldn't smoke in your own home. I don't care what people do in their home.

So when we're really addressing issues like poverty, you can't do that without addressing the real driver of some of those, which is stable homes, families. So that's why to me those issues are important. They're not frivolous. They're critical economic issues.

There's never been a civilization that has rewritten what marriage and family means and survived.

We need to be clear in calling out evil for what it is. When people will behead a child, and when people will leave people starving on top of a mountain without food or water - 40,000 of them - I don't care what religion it is: It's evil.

If the government can't track illegals, then let's outsource the job to UPS or FedEx.

I think people forget that bipartisanship is really the burden of the victor, not the loser.

The best way is to say that as a Christian for me the essence of Christian faith is that you treat others as if you wish to be treated.