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

Unless you really stand for something, people aren't motivated to go out and vote for you.

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.

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.

I think we're never fully protected, but I think we need to do everything we can to stop threats to us.

I think that there is a bipartisan consensus that's incorrect that we should have the whole world be in NATO. For example, if we had Ukraine and Georgia in NATO - and this is something McCain and the other neocons have advocated for - we would be at war now because Russia has invaded both of them.

Parents own the children, and it is an issue of freedom and public health.