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

I hate that Mosul is falling, but I also think that for 10 years we have supplied the Iraqis and they can't stand up and do anything to defend their country, and it is all up to us?

The GOP of old has grown stale and moss-covered. I don't think we need to name any names, do we? Our party is encumbered by an inconsistent approach to freedom. The new GOP will need to embrace liberty in both the economic and the personal sphere.

If we believe [Obama] to be a good man who would never kill noncombatants in a cafe in Houston, sitting out in a sidewalk cafe, smoking - oh, that's right you're not allowed to smoke cigarettes anymore.

We do not project power from bankruptcy court. We're borrowing a million dollars a minute.

You can not be a conservative if you're going to keep promoting new programs that you're not going to pay for.

My belief has always been that national defense is the most important thing we do, but we shouldn't borrow to pay for it.