Hardened terrorists are coming here to hit us hard if we don't hit them first.

Our intervention to destabilize the Assad regime has really made the chaos worse in Syria. And if you were to get rid of Assad today, I would actually worry about the 2 million Christians that are protected by Assad.

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

Foreign aid goes from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries.

During the Great Depression African Americans understood that Republicans championed citizenship and voting rights, but they became impatient for economic emancipation.

Perhaps it is time to be more careful what we ask government to do, and where we allow it to become part of our lives.

40 percent of people who come to visit America on a visa overstay their visa and we have no idea where they are. On 9/11, at least 2 of the hijackers were here on visa. They were traveling back and forth to the Middle East. And we really had no idea where they were or what they were doing. And they were overstaying their visa. So there are problems I think in the immigration system that need to be fixed for our safety.