I think we've made the collection haystack so big, no one's ever getting through the haystack to find the needle. What we really need to do is isolate the haystack into a group of suspicious people and spend enormous resources looking at suspicious people, people who we have probable cause.

We had people coming to our Foreign Relations Committee and saying, "Oh, we need to arm the allies of Al Qaida." They are still saying this. It is a crazy notion. This is the biggest debate we should be having is is regime change a good idea; has it been a good idea.

The U.S. should never get involved where we have no clear national interest. We should not intervene militarily in a country like Syria, where we can’t separate friend from foe and might end up arming the very people who hate us the most.

I think my dad has helped me tremendously.

John McCain is the guy that has advocated for war everywhere. He would bankrupt the nation.

We still need to secure our southern border. The other thing I would say is we need to secure who visits us in the country.

The Republican platform specifically says we don't believe in bailing out private business, and yet we did.