I would argue that the objective evidence shows that big government is not a friend to African Americans.

I don't care if you're a Republican or a Democrat, there is something profoundly un-American about using the brute force of government to bully someone.

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.

What I don't like from the president's administration is this sort of, 'I'll put my boot heel on the throat of BP.' I think that sounds really un-American in his criticism of business. And I think it's part of this sort of blame-game society in the sense that it's always got to be someone's fault instead of the fact that sometimes accidents happen.

Does the owner of the restaurant own his restaurant? Or does the government own his restaurant?

We don't have enough money to rebuild our own country if we're rebuilding everyone else's countries.

If someone has Ebola at a cocktail party they're contagious and you can catch it from them.