I have been around conservatives my entire life. I have never met a single human being, in any place, who wanted to ban contraceptives.

The essence of the conservative message should be we want a dynamic nation where anybody with nothing can achieve anything.

Since there are no absolutes, when it's convenient, you change the rules. Do we know any politicians that have done that?

A good impression is great. But a bad impression is even better.

Any Republican, especially any conservative, expects the media to be hostile. That's just the reality of being a Republican. You've got to be prepared to deal with that.

What I put forward was an amendment that would have temporarily halted immigration from high-risk terrorist countries, but would have started it up, but I wanted them to go through Global Entry, which is a program where we do background checks.

You can't get to a balanced budget and begin to pay down debt and thus create jobs in this country if you don't have specific plans to make it work.