I will not vote to send my sons, or your sons, daughters, brothers, sisters or friends to fight for a stalemate.

I don't think we're doing an adequate vetting process of those who are coming to our country.

My worry now is that many people are talking about a partial repeal of Obamacare. If you only repeal part of it and you leave if some sort of Obamacare light, which some are talking about, my fear is the situation actually gets worse.

I went to my first national convention in 1976, when my family supported [Ronald] Reagan over [Gerald] Ford, so we've always been Republicans, but we've always wanted the Republican Party to be the party of fiscally conservative, limited-government types. And I think, sometimes, we haven't done that as well.

Everybody is looking for an election where they can do something and participate.

Toppling secular dictators in the Middle East has only led to chaos and the rise of radical Islam.

John McCain's complaint is we're either not at war somewhere, or if we're at war, we leave too soon. So we're not there soon enough, and he wants us to stay forever wherever we send troops.