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.

I think that there is a bipartisan consensus that's incorrect that we should have the whole world be in NATO. For example, if we had Ukraine and Georgia in NATO - and this is something McCain and the other neocons have advocated for - we would be at war now because Russia has invaded both of them.

No Republican questions or disputes civil rights. I have never wavered in my support for civil rights or the civil rights act.

I think if we ban certain religions, if we censor the Internet, I think that at that point the terrorists will have won.

The main thing I say on war is that we need to obey the law and formally declare war.

ISIL is not the JV team. I cannot stress enough that there's a terrorist army in Syria and Iraq that wants to attack the homeland and we're not doing anything about it. So how do you defeat the ideology? Build up others? You reject Rand Paul.

The more we can have peaceful trade both with Russia, with China, and with others, you know, there's a self interest in this for everyone.