Why don't we see any questions from the press? Why don't we see anybody from the media saying, 'Mr. President, it's illegal, you started it, you are performing a program that is collecting all of the phone records from all Americans, it's been declared illegal from the second highest court in the land, why don't you stop?'

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

I'm in favor of everything with regards to ending institutional racism.

I would have never released the sanctions [for Iran] before there was consistent evidence of compliance.

People who want to come to this country don't have constitutional rights. Once they get here, they do. But coming here is not a constitutional right. So with do, as a nation, have the ability and should have the ability to decide who comes here and when they come here.

I think Saudi Arabia often finances radical Islam and the teaching of hatred to the West and hatred of Americans. I think it is important that we know that. It's important that we know that there is a threat within and a threat without. I think we can stop it with more aggressive use of actual constitutional tools.

I won't support any budget, whether it's a Republican or a Democrat budget, that doesn't lead to balance.