I think there's a racial outcome to a lot of what goes in America, but I don't think race is always the reason.

We shouldn't have a program where we just say that we're going to take care of the world's refugees. Nobody in the Middle East is doing anything. Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait - all the Gulf nations are doing nothing.

When we toppled [Muammar] Gadhafi in Libya, I think that was a mistake. I think ISIS grew stronger, we had a failed state, and we were more at risk.

The greatest threat to our national security is our debt. We borrow a million dollars a minute.

Hardened terrorists are coming here to hit us hard if we don't hit them first.

The U.S. should never get involved where we have no clear national interest. We should not intervene militarily in a country like Syria, where we can’t separate friend from foe and might end up arming the very people who hate us the most.

Republicans who criticize the use of two languages, I think, make a great mistake.