The president's rattling the saber and beating the drums may have an effect.

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

I think this sets a very bad precedent, the president unilaterally on his own starting war without any consent from Congress.

When the government tries to invade the church to enforce its own opinion on [gay] marriage, that's when it's time to resist.

The government has investigated our program of collecting through a generalized fashion, everyone's phone records in the country. And they found that no terrorist case has been thwarted through this.

I think we ought to quit sending [help] to countries that burn our flag.

Any time you make an analogy to horrific people in history, Mussolini or Hitler, people say, 'Oh, you're exaggerating, you're talking about, it's hyperbole.' Maybe it is. ... But I would say is that if you are not concerned that democracy could produce bad people, I don't think you're really thinking this through too much.