I don't want to live in a nanny state where people are telling me where I can go and what I can do.

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

The fundamental reason why Medicare is failing is why the Soviet Union failed - socialism doesn't work.

I'm not opposed to letting people work and labor in our country, but we shouldn't provide an easy route to citizenship. We're the only country I know of where a person can come in illegally and that baby becomes a citizen and I think that should stop also.

I would argue that the objective evidence shows that big government is not a friend to African Americans.

The other thing I said is the great irony is you will be back fighting against your own weapons. Had [Bashar] Assad been bombed when he used chemical weapons two years ago, ISIS would be in charge of all of Syria now.

I really think that discrimination and racism is a horrible thing. And I don't want any form of it in our government, in our public sphere.