Many states and even many people who are in support of the death penalty question their support of the death penalty because of the imperfection of our courts. Through DNA testing, we don’t always get it right, even with that.
My belief has always been that national defense is the most important thing we do, but we shouldn’t borrow to pay for it.
I don’t think I’m really open to having Washington change me.
I really think that discrimination and racism is a horrible thing. And I don’t want any form of it in our government, in our public sphere.
Parents own the children, and it is an issue of freedom and public health.
The state doesn’t own your children. Parents own the children.
You can tell a person’s religion 85 percent of the time from their phone records.
The president began this program by executive order. He should immediately end it by executive order. For over a year now, he has said the program is illegal, and yet he does nothing.
I think we’ve made the collection haystack so big, no one’s ever getting through the haystack to find the needle. What we really need to do is isolate the haystack into a group of suspicious people and spend enormous resources looking at suspicious people, people who we have probable cause.
We didn’t create ISIS – ISIS created themselves, but we will stop them, and one of the ways we stop them is by not funding them, and not arming them.
We need to be fearful of companies that get so big that they can actually be directing policy.
The 11 million, I think, are never going home, don’t need to be sent home, and I would incorporate them into our society by giving them work visas and making them taxpayers.
Do you hate poor people or do you just hate poor people with jobs?
There is nothing conservative about bailing out Wall Street. Likewise, there is nothing progressive about billion dollar loans to millionaires to build solar panels.
We must protect ourselves from jihadis without losing ourselves.
I need to be very careful about going on certain networks that seem to have a bias.
I think this sets a very bad precedent, the president unilaterally on his own starting war without any consent from Congress.
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.