Whether or not regime change is a good idea or a bad idea. I don't think because I think the regime change was a bad idea it means that Hussein was necessarily a good idea.

If you force legislators to balance, at the end of the day, if it has to be balanced, then they step up and they become legislators and can find out where to cut.

I do want to see an immigration compromise. And you can't have an immigration compromise if everybody's out there calling the president a racist.

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

I just can't vote to go to war unless I think there's a real clear-cut American purpose in the war, that we're going to win and that we're not going fight for stalemate.

As our voices rise in protest, the NSA monitors your every phone call. if you have a cell phone, you are under surveillance. I believe what you do on your cell phone is none of their damn business.

I think that most manufacturing and mining should be under the purview of state authorities.