I'm an internationalist. I want to help others, not just kill terrorists.

You can not be a conservative if you're going to keep promoting new programs that you're not going to pay for.

I'll do anything to try to prevent John Bolton from getting any position, because I think his world view is naive. He believes we're going to spread democracy. We're going to topple governments everywhere and they're going to elect Thomas Jefferson. That's not the way it works in the Middle East.

If you give up your rights now, don’t expect to get them back.

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

I hate that Mosul is falling, but I also think that for 10 years we have supplied the Iraqis and they can't stand up and do anything to defend their country, and it is all up to us?

If I have a weakness, it's that I try to live by the rules. I try to live by the rules, no matter what they are, and I was brought up that way as a kid. Play by the rules.