The U.S. should never get involved where we have no clear national interest. We should not intervene militarily in a country like Syria, where we can’t separate friend from foe and might end up arming the very people who hate us the most.

I would never belong to any club that excluded anybody for race.

I don't want to live in a nanny state where people are telling me where I can go and what I can do.

I don't like the idea of telling private business owners. I abhor racism. I think it's a bad business decision to ever exclude anybody from your restaurant. But at the same time I do believe in private ownership. I think there should be absolutely no discrimination in anything that gets public funding.

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

I think women have come a long way. Women are in positions not because they're women, they're in positions because they're intelligent and they should be equal to their counterparts and treated equally.

What I say is, national defense is the most important thing we do in Washington, but there's still waste in the military budget.