It's curious that only in Washington can you spend $2 billion and claim that you're saving money.

Income inequality is worse in towns run by Democrat mayors than in towns run by Republican mayors.

It is illegal for the CIA to spy on Americans and an affront to our Republic to spy on the Senate.

Toppling secular dictators in the Middle East has only led to chaos and the rise of radical Islam.

We've gone too far in thinking we can re-create an American democratic paradise in the Middle East.

I don't want to live in a nanny state where people are telling me where I can go and what I can do.

There's a sense of urgency that the president does not possess, that there is a 9/11 in the making.

I don't think we're actually using the constitutional tools that we have in an appropriate fashion.

After all the sacrifice in Afghanistan and Iraq, why do we find ourselves in a more dangerous world?

My grandfather would live to see his children become doctors and ministers, accounts and professors.

We should not have drug laws or a court system that disproportionately punishes the black community.

We are more polarized. And some of that comes from the people and some of that comes from the media.

We don't have enough money to rebuild our own country if we're rebuilding everyone else's countries.

Actually we're very lucky John McCain is not in charge because I think we would be in perpetual war.

What America needs is not just another politician or more promises. What America needs is a revival.

I am running for president to return our country to the principles of liberty and limited government.

Well, let's be clear, I'm the only one on the stage who actually has a five-year budget that balances.

Foreign aid is not something the vast majority of Americans support, but definitely not conservatives.

You don't set up an implicit promise from the federal government that everybody is getting bailed out.

I'm for immigration reform. I think the system's horribly broken, and we need to do something about it.

The fundamental reason why Medicare is failing is why the Soviet Union failed - socialism doesn't work.

If I had been in President Obama's shoes, I would have acted more decisively and strongly against ISIS.

I think we're never fully protected, but I think we need to do everything we can to stop threats to us.

I would have never released the sanctions [for Iran] before there was consistent evidence of compliance.

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

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

The First Amendment says keep government out of religion. It doesn't say keep religion out of government.

I would argue that the objective evidence shows that big government is not a friend to African Americans.

I won't support any budget, whether it's a Republican or a Democrat budget, that doesn't lead to balance.

The Hepatitis B vaccine is now given to newborns. We sometimes give five and six vaccines all at one time.

In some communities, I show up, and they say, 'Well, we haven't seen our Democrat congressman in 10 years.'

The Republican platform specifically says we don't believe in bailing out private business, and yet we did.

Just because a majority of the Supreme Court declares something to be 'constitutional' does not make it so.

For liberty to expand, government must shrink. For the economy to grow, government must get out of the way.

Was anybody else bothered by the sight of mine-resistant vehicles and guns pointed at unarmed men in Ferguson?

Big and oppressive government has long been the enemy of freedom, something black Americans know all too well.

I rode my bike to school every day from age five to age fourteen. It was a small town - you could go anywhere.

I think that ISIS is a threat to our embassy, to our consulate, as well as potentially to the American people.

You can not be a conservative if you're going to keep promoting new programs that you're not going to pay for.

Just because a couple people on the Supreme Court declare something to be 'constitutional' does not make it so.

You know, you look at term limits, you poll term limits, 70, 80 percent of Republicans or Democrats are for it.

I think there's a racial outcome to a lot of what goes in America, but I don't think race is always the reason.

I will not vote to send my sons, or your sons, daughters, brothers, sisters or friends to fight for a stalemate.

Laws don't really restrain people. Ninety-eight percent of people follow a virtuous course with or without laws.

American inventiveness and the desire to build developed because we were guaranteed the right to own our success.

Even before ObamaCare, the government took care of the bottom 5 or 10 percent of the public who were on Medicaid.

I was elected to the Senate in 2010 by people worried about our country, worried about our kids and their future.

My budget is similar to the Penny Plan, which cuts 1 percent a year for five or six years and balances the budget.

I think public awareness of how good vaccines are for kids and how they are good for public health is a great idea.

I think the Supreme Court has not yet caught up to an era in which one keeps one's papers in a cloud, not a castle.

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