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.

America's not the world's policeman. Terrible things happen across the globe and it is beyond our means to right every wrong. But when, with modest effort and risk, we can stop children from being gassed to death and thereby make our own children safer over the long run, I believe we should act.

In a reality, what we should be doing is having quiet diplomacy with the Russians to convince them that it's in their self-interest to have a more stable Middle East because trade enriches us all.

You shouldn't have one opinion when you're running and another when you're president.

I do want to see an immigration compromise. And you can't have an immigration compromise if everybody's out there calling the president a racist.

When the government tries to invade the church to enforce its own opinion on [gay] marriage, that's when it's time to resist.

I worry that the Senate is working to consider a series of little-noticed provisions in comprehensive immigration reform that may provide a pathway to a national ID card for all individuals present in the United States - citizens and noncitizens.