Using taxes to punish the rich, in reality, punishes everyone because we are all interconnected. High taxes and excessive regulation and massive debt are not working.

Any time we give people the ability to use force, we have to be very careful. It's sort of like the people who spy on us - you've got to watch the watchers.

I've introduced legislation to say, "For right now, let's stop it," from about 34 countries.

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

I think a lot of things could be handled locally.

Let's say tomorrow that there was a president, that we elected a president that eliminated the bulk collection of data. Let's just say it happened. What do you think would happen? People are like 'the sky would fall. We would be overrun with jihadists.' Maybe we could rely on the Constitution. Maybe we could get warrants. ... If you make the warrant specific, there's no limit to what you can get through a warrant.

Secretary [John] Kerry has called Civil War [in Syria] an unbelievably small war that we're going to get involved with.