But you know what? There's far more pain involved in rolling over, far more pain in hiding.

You have to be willing to have the decision-making follow the data.

I'm very proud to have joined with conservatives in both the Senate and the House to reform how we target bad guys.

A debate actually is a policy issue but I will say this - gosh, if you guys ask one more mean question, I may have to leave the stage.

Whatever the history of U.S. intervention in Iraq, our priorities now should be to protect our people and defend our national security interests, not to try to resolve an intractable religious divide some 1,500 years in the making.

Keep government out of the money of the people, schools of the people, and will of the people.

The problem we have is not Democrats versus Republicans. It is a Washington cartel. I've said many times the biggest divide we have politically is not between Republicans and Democrats. It's between career politicians in both parties and the American people.