I believe the American people are looking for someone to speak the truth.

We need to use overwhelming air power. We need to be arming the Kurds. We need to be fighting and killing ISIS where they are.

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

Donald [Trump] has had a long career of using great wealth and power trying to bully others.

I'm not serving in office because I desperately needed 99 new friends in the U.S. Senate. Given the choice between being reviled in Washington, DC, and appreciated in Texas, or reviled in Texas and appreciated in Washington, I would take the former 100 out of 100 times.

Every month, we get the reports from the Bureau of Labor Statistics that say even more people have given up looking for work.

You know, back in the '70s — I remember the '70s, we were told there was global cooling. And everyone was told global cooling was a really big problem. And then that faded.