You can be strong without being involved in every single civil war around the world.

The more we can have peaceful trade both with Russia, with China, and with others, you know, there's a self interest in this for everyone.

We have Islamic rebels [in Syria] who've been eating the hearts or organs of their enemies. We have priests that have been killed. We have Christian villages that have been razed by Islamic rebels. We have Islamic rebels who say they don't recognize Israel and would just as soon attack Israel as [Bashar] Assad. So really, I see no clear-cut American interest, and I'm afraid that sometimes things unravel, and the situation could become less stable and not more stable.

You don't go into politics unless you want to win.

The power to tax and spend is restricted by the enumerated powers.

You can send a clear message to the establishment

If I were to look at foreign policy, I would say John McCain has been wrong on just about everything over the last four decades.