No Republican questions or disputes civil rights. I have never wavered in my support for civil rights or the civil rights act.

I really think that discrimination and racism is a horrible thing. And I don't want any form of it in our government, in our public sphere.

In the aftermath of 9/11, the Patriot Act was rushed to the floor. Several hundred pages. Nobody read it ... But people voted because they were fearful and people said there could be another attack and Americans will blame me if I don't vote on this.

Perhaps it is time to be more careful what we ask government to do, and where we allow it to become part of our lives.

We have 11 million people said to be in our country illegally. Forty percent of them are said to have overstayed their visa. Do we know where they are?

I think there is some overreach in the sense that the EPA now says: if Congress doesn't pass greenhouse emissions regulations or testing, we'll simply do it on our own. I think that's an arrogance of a regulatory body run amok.

America does not need to continue to have regime change throughout the world, nation-building.