The main thing I say on war is that we need to obey the law and formally declare war.

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.

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.

The one way, possibly, out of this is for [Bashar] Assad to abdicate and plead, perhaps to Russia or somewhere else. Would save another wave of civilian casualties if we could get him to abdicate.

Toppling secular dictators in the Middle East has only led to chaos and the rise of radical Islam.

The Constitution was not written to restrain the citizen's behavior, it was writtne to restrain the government's behavior.

And when the time is right, I hope that African Americans will again look to the party of emancipation, civil liberty, and individual freedom.