I'll do anything to try to prevent John Bolton from getting any position, because I think his world view is naive. He believes we're going to spread democracy. We're going to topple governments everywhere and they're going to elect Thomas Jefferson. That's not the way it works in the Middle East.

I think Saudi Arabia often finances radical Islam and the teaching of hatred to the West and hatred of Americans. I think it is important that we know that. It's important that we know that there is a threat within and a threat without. I think we can stop it with more aggressive use of actual constitutional tools.

I will advocate for Kentucky's interests.

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

If you give up your rights now, don’t expect to get them back.

For most of our history, no one dared to tell Americans, you don't build that.

For liberty to expand, government must shrink. For the economy to grow, government must get out of the way.