Somebody tells me no, they’re not going to keep telling me no, because I’m going to bother them to the point where it’s a lot easier for them to say yes than keep saying no.
America needs somebody to restore the strength of this great land of ours.
Everybody across this country knows that the tsunami of drugs is – is threatening their very families.
The Pentagon needs precious resources to build the strength of America, and we can’t say, ‘this is really important to this community, and it’s really not vital to the national security, but we ought to do it anyway.’ So, I think we have to have a discipline on this.
I was the chairman of the Budget Committee and the lead architect the last time it happened in Washington, and when we did it we had great economic growth, we cut taxes, and we had a big surplus.
And, frankly, what happens out of Washington is, it creates a wind in my face, uncertainty over Obamacare, uncertainty over their tax policy, uncertainty over the regulatory policy.
We’re now going to develop the standards on transparency, data collection for police, but the whole goal is to fully integrate the police into the community because everybody has the same goals.
Everybody has a right to their God-given purpose.
Business people have a a good view of what’s happening internally in countries, and they can be a positive force.
There is a big problem. It’s called encryption. And the people in San Bernardino were communicating with people who the FBI had been watching. But because their phone was encrypted, because the intelligence officials could not see who they were talking to, it was lost.
There is a difference between Iraq, where you have Sunni, Shia, and Kurds put together after the First World War by the Western powers. It doesn’t work. It needs to break up into three parts.
First and foremost, we need to go and destroy ISIS. And we need to do this with our Arab friends and our friends in Europe.
Nobody wants anybody who’s radical, who wants to move in here to be able to gain access. I said we should take a pause on these Syrian migrants. And I believe we should do that.
The first thing we better get going is strengthening our economy, because if we don’t have a strong economy, we can’t pay for all of this. And the world wants us to be able to function from strength, believe it or not.
We got to make sure that we have the incentives for people to rise and not put them in a position of where they go to work and they lose more than what they gain and they’re like this system is terrible.
At the end, the Saudis have agreed to put together a coalition inside of Syria to stabilize that country.
I remember when the Egyptian ambassador to the United States stood in the Rose Garden and pledged Arab commitment to removing Saddam Hussein from Kuwait.
I believe we can solve anything. I believe people working together can lift everybody.
I said that we needed to have people on the ground, troops on the ground in a coalition similar to what we had in the first Gulf War.
The stuff that I propose are things that I’m ready to govern with. They’re not tools to get elected. They are programs and plans to do when you get elected.