I think it's a real debate how big NATO should be and whether or not it's more provocative than good. Whenever there's a war fought, our soldiers fight it and our dollars pay for it. And, really, our decisions need to be about our national security.

What gets lost is that the Republican Party has always been the party of civil rights and voting rights.

The president wants more tax money in Washington. I want more money left in the communities, particularly poor communities, particularly communities that have high unemployment.

I think that we have to be very careful about who comes here from the Middle East.

I say the phone records of law abiding citizens are none of their damn business!

I've introduced legislation to say, "For right now, let's stop it," from about 34 countries.

Nobody ever was fired for 9/11. Instead of firing the people who didn't do a good job, we gave them medals. The guy who did a good job, I don't know what happened to him. And what we did was we decided we'd just collect everybody's information. That we'd sort of scrap the Bill of Rights.