In our state, I'm really proud of the fact that the ones who overturned Jim Crow in Kentucky were Republicans fighting against an entirely unified De….

What my bill would do would be only for refugees going forward. So I haven't taken a position on sending anyone home. But I have taken the position t….

The idea of foreign policy realism, I think, fits more neatly with President Trump. And with John McCain, the neoconservative label of let's make the….

I think we can't be naive in dealing with the Russians or dealing with the Syrians. But at the same time, I think we could try to encourage - and I t….

Whether or not regime change is a good idea or a bad idea. I don't think because I think the regime change was a bad idea it means that Hussein was n….

You need to have people within your own party that have the wherewithal to stand up to you..

When I asked the president [Barack Obama], can you kill an American on American soil, it should have been an easy answer. It's an easy question. It s….

The Constitution was not written to restrain the citizen's behavior, it was writtne to restrain the government's behavior..

It is impossible for African-Americans not to feel like their government is particularly targeting them..

With regard to the idea of whether you have a right to health care, you have to realize what that implies. It’s not an abstraction. I’m a physician. ….

If I have a weakness, it's that I try to live by the rules. I try to live by the rules, no matter what they are, and I was brought up that way as a k….

The coarsening of our culture towards violent death has more consequences than war. Tragically, this same culture has led to the death of 50 million ….

I think if you have a two-story office and you hire someone who's handicapped, it might be reasonable to let him have an office on the first floor ra….

This whole sort of 'war on women' sort of thing, I'm scratching my head because if there was a war on women, I think they won..

If you are going to kill the families of terrorists, realize that there's something called the Geneva Convention we're going to have to pull out of. ….

I worry that the Senate is working to consider a series of little-noticed provisions in comprehensive immigration reform that may provide a pathway t….

Every child in every neighborhood, of every color, class and background, deserves a school that will help them succeed..

In the aftermath of 9/11, the Patriot Act was rushed to the floor. Several hundred pages. Nobody read it ... But people voted because they were fearf….

I would introduce and support legislation to send Roe v. Wade back to the states..

What gets lost is that the Republican Party has always been the party of civil rights and voting rights..

The GOP of old has grown stale and moss-covered. I don't think we need to name any names, do we? Our party is encumbered by an inconsistent approach ….