Foreign aid goes from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries.
I’m a Reagan conservative. Reagan did negotiate with the Soviets. But you have to negotiate from a position of strength.
The GOP of old has grown old and moss covered.
I say not one penny more to countries that are burning our flag.
The key to winning any general election in the USA is to excite your base and then expand your base – get independent voters and voters who haven’t been voting for your party to come to your party.
I will not let the patriot act, the most un-patriotic of acts, go unchallenged.
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 kid. Play by the rules.
The only way to save Social Security is to raise the retirement age.
I think that, most importantly, when I see issues of war, I see them in a personal vein, and I am reluctant to go to war unless there’s a real, valid American interest because I’ve seen the wounded soldiers.
I think if Russia is really an honest signatory to the chemical weapons ban, if Syria wants to be, ultimately someone has to be responsible for killing civilians. And that’s the hard part out of this.
The greatest threat to our national security is our debt. We borrow a million dollars a minute.
We shouldn’t have a program where we just say that we’re going to take care of the world’s refugees. Nobody in the Middle East is doing anything. Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait – all the Gulf nations are doing nothing.
To put everyone in government housing and food stamps and bring them in from around the world I think is a mistake. To give of your own money, I’ve given to my church. My church has helped people that came from Bosnia. That’s a good thing.
To me, there is no greater threat than our debt. I’m the only fiscal conservative on the stage because I’m willing to hold the line on all spending.
On the Gang of Eight bill, there was no provisions really for extra scrutiny or safety for refugees. At the time the bill came up, two Iraqi refugees came to my home town, Bowling Green, Kentucky. Their fingerprints were on a bomb from Iraq. They were in the database, but we didn’t pick them up.
I’m in favor of everything with regards to ending institutional racism.
I think there is some overreach in the sense that the EPA now says: if Congress doesn’t pass greenhouse emissions regulations or testing, we’ll simply do it on our own. I think that’s an arrogance of a regulatory body run amok.
I just can’t vote to go to war unless I think there’s a real clear-cut American purpose in the war, that we’re going to win and that we’re not going fight for stalemate.
We should understand the limitations of war. We should understand the sacrifices our young men and women go through losing lives and limbs. And they should only do it for the highest of purposes.
I think if we ban certain religions, if we censor the Internet, I think that at that point the terrorists will have won.