Occupation: United States Senator Birth: January 7, 1963
Unless you really stand for something, people aren't motivated to go out and vote for you..
You can't have it both ways. You can't tell me that you're taxed enough already, and that you want constitutional government and then in the next bre….
The other thing to realize is that almost all these shootings, including this shooting [in San-Bernardino], happened in a government building where p….
I have a great deal of concern for any president and the amount of power they accumulate versus congress. I'm a stickler about the idea of separation….
You don't know who the next group is that's unpopular. The Bill of Rights isn't for the prom queen. The bill of rights isn't for the high school quar….
I'm not in favor of any discrimination of any form..
Out of regime change you get chaos. From the chaos you have seen repeatedly the rise of radical Islam. So we get this profession of, oh, my goodness,….
When you couple this militarization of law enforcement with an erosion of civil liberties and due process that allows the police to become judge and ….
When we toppled [Muammar] Gadhafi in Libya, I think that was a mistake. I think ISIS grew stronger, we had a failed state, and we were more at risk..
The Fourth Amendment was what we fought the Revolution over!.
I am encouraged President Obama now says he will fulfill his constitutional obligation to seek authorization for any potential military action in Syr….
I hate that Mosul is falling, but I also think that for 10 years we have supplied the Iraqis and they can't stand up and do anything to defend their ….
Currently, the United States has troops in dozens of countries and is actively fighting in Iraq, Syria, Libya, and Yemen (with the occasional drone s….
We should not have drug laws or a court system that disproportionately punishes the black community..
What I say is, national defense is the most important thing we do in Washington, but there's still waste in the military budget..
The history of African-American repression in this country rose from government-sanctioned racism. Jim Crow laws were a product of bigoted state and ….
There's a sense of urgency that the president does not possess, that there is a 9/11 in the making..
I would set aside all these budget cuts that are going to devastate the F.B.I., the C.I.A., and the N.S.A. Sequestration, cuts, are not only gutting ….
If I were to look at foreign policy, I would say John McCain has been wrong on just about everything over the last four decades..
Washington is horribly broken. We are encountering a day of reckoning and this movement, this Tea Party movement, is a message to Washington that we'….
The question's whether or not there's an American interest in the Civil War [in Syria]. The question is whether or not a military strike on [Bashar] ….