I think declaring a no fly zone over foreign soil is tantamount to an act of war.

When you have less revenue coming in the door, you have more money going out the door. You have to find ways of trimming.

The USA Freedom Act does not propose that we abandon any and all efforts to analyze telephone data, what we're talking about here is a program that currently contemplates the collection of all data just as a routine matter and the aggregation of all that data in one database. That causes concerns for a lot of people... There's a lot of potential for abuse.

When you have a country that's been accustomed to government spending at a certain level, it is really hard to ratchet it back.

The conservative candidate who ignores moderates is as misguided as the moderate candidate who ignores conservatives.

I would vote against raising the national debt ceiling. Again, this is about mortgaging the future of unborn generations of Americans. It's a form of taxation without representation. I don't think we can do that.

I'm nobody's deputy. I am who I am. I'm my own person.