Of strong importance to me is the defense of minority rights, not just racial minorities, but ideological and religious minorities..

I've put pencil to paper... and I've said I would cut spending, and I've said exactly where. Each one of my budgets has taken a meat axe to foreign a….

I’m not for profiling people on the color of their skin or on their religion. But I would take into account where they've been traveling and perhaps ….

The problem is that in our country, they make it almost impossible for politicians to win anything. In England it's easier to win a libel suit..

I'll tell you what a weakness is of this country [the USA]: there are a lot of people who are sick and tired because Washington does not play by the ….

If you force legislators to balance, at the end of the day, if it has to be balanced, then they step up and they become legislators and can find out ….

The more we can have peaceful trade both with Russia, with China, and with others, you know, there's a self interest in this for everyone..

No Republican questions or disputes civil rights. I have never wavered in my support for civil rights or the civil rights act..

What I can say is, is that if you do a poll, and one of the worldwide polling companies did this, and they asked people in 50 countries, "Would you l….

If there are few conservatives in the senate wing of the Republican Party that will say no to a budget that never balances, we could have the power t….

The great and abiding lesson of American history, particularly the Cold War, is that the engine of capitalism - the individual - is mightier than any….

You can tell a person's religion 85 percent of the time from their phone records..

The current budget that the Republicans are looking at never balances. How can that be fiscally responsible? And how can we look at the public with a….

The Republican Party's history is rich and chock full of emancipation and black history..

After ensuring border security, I then would normalize the status of 11 million undocumented citizens so they can join the work force and pay taxes..….

We have to have a more realistic foreign policy and not a utopian one where we say, oh, we're going to spread freedom and democracy, and everybody in….

We don't need bigger government. We need to shrink the size of government..

If you're white and you're rich in the USA, if you get busted for drugs, you get a good attorney, and you in all likelihood serve no time. But if you….

I would prefer the [USA] government to be the policeman and not the businessman..

You have to decide in advance whether you're ready go to war. If you guys are ready to send a million troops into Ukraine and fight World War III, yo….

And when the time is right, I hope that African Americans will again look to the party of emancipation, civil liberty, and individual freedom..