All issues of crime are better addressed at the state level.

I think that, most importantly, when I see issues of war, I see them in a personal vein, and I am reluctant to go to war unless there's a real, valid American interest because I've seen the wounded soldiers.

Secretary [John] Kerry has called Civil War [in Syria] an unbelievably small war that we're going to get involved with.

If you force legislators to balance, at the end of the day, if it has to be balanced, then they step up and they become legislators and can find out where to cut.

I don't want to live in a nanny state where people are telling me where I can go and what I can do.

We are borrowing $40,000 per second.

Any time we give people the ability to use force, we have to be very careful. It's sort of like the people who spy on us - you've got to watch the watchers.