Currently, the United States has troops in dozens of countries and is actively fighting in Iraq, Syria, Libya, and Yemen (with the occasional drone strike in Pakistan). In addition, the United States is pledged to defend 28 countries in NATO. It is unwise to expand the monetary and military obligations of the United States given the burden of our $20 trillion debt.

To understand how Republicans lost the African American vote, we must first understand how we won the African American vote.

In a free society we will tolerate boorish people, who have abhorrent behavior, but if we're civilized people we publicly criticize that and don't belong to those groups or associate with those people.

I think it's a conundrum. If we have no laws on this, people take it to one extension further, does it have to be humans, you know?

I think that, most importantly, when I see issues of war, I see them in a personal vein, and I am reluctant to go to war unless there's a real, valid American interest because I've seen the wounded soldiers.

We still need to secure our southern border. The other thing I would say is we need to secure who visits us in the country.

American inventiveness and the desire to build developed because we were guaranteed the right to own our success.