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

Out of regime change you get chaos. From the chaos you have seen repeatedly the rise of radical Islam. So we get this profession of, oh, my goodness, they want to do something about terrorism and yet they're the problem because they allow terrorism to arise out of that chaos.

If there were an ounce of courage in this body I would be joined by other senators… saying they will not tolerate this.

I call myself a constitutional conservative.

I've put pencil to paper... and I've said I would cut spending, and I've said exactly where. Each one of my budgets has taken a meat axe to foreign aid, because I think we ought to quit sending it to countries that hate us.

To me, there is no greater threat than our debt. I'm the only fiscal conservative on the stage because I'm willing to hold the line on all spending.

We as Republicans have taken the easy way out a lot of times.