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

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.

Limited government must come politically, not judicially.

It is simply science fiction fantasy to say that, if you do not raise the debt ceiling, that everything is going to collapse.

The Tea Party has an important voice in the country and now they have a voice in the U.S. Senate.

I think I was about 30 before I realized that not every family talks about the presentment clause on a regular basis.

That's why we have senators and members of congress from every state. That's why we have elections. Because the people speak and there are different viewpoints out there. It doesn't mean just because we're members of one party or another, doesn't mean that we behave monolithically. It means that we will express our view points.