Because federal hate crime laws criminalize thoughts, they are incompatible with a free society.

America was born of protest, revolution, and mistrust of government. Subservient societies neither maintain nor deserve freedom for long.

How did we win the election in the year 2000? We talked about a humble foreign policy: No nation-building; don't police the world. That's conservative, it's Republican, it's pro-American - it follows the founding fathers. And, besides, it follows the Constitution.

The federal government overrules state laws where state laws permit medicinal marijuana for people dying of cancer. The federal government goes in and arrests these people, put them in prison with mandatory, sometimes life sentences. This war on drugs is totally out of control. If you want to regulate cigarettes and alcohol and drugs, it should be at the state level.

If economy were good, there'd be no immigration problem.

Foreign aid is taking money from the poor people of a rich country and giving it to the rich people of a poor country.

It’s amazing that people don’t understand that the more the market is involved and the smaller the government, the lower the price, the better the distribution, and the higher the quality.