Every gun regulation that President [Barack] Obama has advocated for, California has already. And it didn't stop terrorism.

I have allowed the president to pick his political appointees…But I will not sit quietly and let him shred the Constitution.

The Fourth Amendment was what we fought the Revolution over!

Secretary [John] Kerry has called Civil War [in Syria] an unbelievably small war that we're going to get involved with.

I don't think I'm really open to having Washington change me.

President Obama, I think, wanted what was best for the country, but I think it didn't work well. I think we have the death spiral, and I think particularly premiums in the individual market are going through the roof. Republicans want what's best for the country, but I think they're not fixing the death spiral of Obamacare. They're going to subsidize it with a lot of taxpayer money. So, characterizing something as mean or generous I think goes to people's motives, and I think it is sort of why we have such an angry country now. We think that people have ill motives.

I do believe people ought to be left alone. I don't care who you are or what you do at home or who your friends are or where you hang out, what kind of music you listen to, what you do in your home is your own business. That's always been who I am. I am a leave me alone kind of guy.