I will advocate for Kentucky's interests.

Bipartisanship is not what is missing in Washington. Common sense is.

Well, there’s 10 - there’s 10 different - there’s 10 different titles, you know, to the Civil Rights Act, and nine out of 10 deal with public institutions. And I’m absolutely in favor of one deals with private institutions, and had I been around, I would have tried to modify that.

The vast majority of my time is traveling and talking about the issues. It isn't really calling and asking for money.

My goodness, what we want in a leader is someone with judgment, not someone who is so reckless as to stand on the stage and say, "Yes, I'm jumping up and down; I'm going to shoot down Russian planes." Russia already flies in that airspace. It may not be something we're in love with the fact that they're there, but they were invited by Iraq and by Syria to fly in that airspace.

My grandfather would live to see his children become doctors and ministers, accounts and professors.

And when the time is right, I hope that African Americans will again look to the party of emancipation, civil liberty, and individual freedom.