The state doesn’t own your children. Parents own the children.

I was very, very concerned about President Obama and how much executive order and how much executive power he tried to exert. But I think I want to be, and I think congress will be, a check on any executive, Republican or Democrat, that tries to grasp too much power. And really, a lot of the fault is not only presidents trying to take too much power, it's Congress giving up too much power.

I would prefer the [USA] government to be the policeman and not the businessman.

I think this sets a very bad precedent, the president unilaterally on his own starting war without any consent from Congress.

We should not have the U.S. government buying stock in American industries - the financial industry or any other industry.

On the Gang of Eight bill, there was no provisions really for extra scrutiny or safety for refugees. At the time the bill came up, two Iraqi refugees came to my home town, Bowling Green, Kentucky. Their fingerprints were on a bomb from Iraq. They were in the database, but we didn't pick them up.

Every gun regulation that President [Barack] Obama has advocated for, California has already. And it didn't stop terrorism.