There's some bells you can't unring.

I ran for attorney general to be attorney general.

For all the criticism of me, there's one thing you won't hear anybody say, and that's that I've pulled the wool over anyone's eyes.

I don't mind knife fights. I just want the knives to come to the front.

Competition's a good thing.

I love algebra. Love it.

My wife's a gardener. I'd put Astroturf down everywhere, but I get outvoted one to one every year.

One of the reasons Americans hold Washington in such low regard is the perception that nothing ever gets done. Whatever the issue - no matter how urgent - they always seem to be 'working on it.'

I learned as a mascot that rules don't really apply to you. As long as you don't go crazy with that. You want to go be the 12th man on a football play, they might have an objection, but otherwise, if you stay out of the way of the game, you can do most anything.

We need all the transportation options that we can get in Virginia - especially options where the private sector carries all the risk and all the cost.

It is my opinion that a local school board cannot impose a mandatory fee on students taking advanced placement courses for the required taking of the Advanced Placement Examination.

I'm the most pro-liberty elected official statewide in my lifetime. It isn't even a close call, so for people who care about protecting liberty, there's never been - again, in my lifetime in Virginia - a statewide elected official who's been as aggressive and consistent about doing that as I have.

Strategies that do show evidence of effectiveness include policing that's focused on high-risk individuals or geographic areas, and/or deterrence-based approaches that hold entire gangs accountable should individual members engage in criminal behavior.

What to do about these increases in crime? Plenty of laws already exist to punish violent criminals, and research questions the level of correlation between longer sentences and lower crime rates.

Incarcerating non-violent offenders in the same population as more dangerous criminals has the effect of inculcating the former into a culture of criminality common among the latter, making them more of a risk to public safety upon release than when they originally went in.

Even without mandatory sentences, judges are still capable of levying tough penalties for serious offenses - and just as in states like Texas that have 'tough on crime' reputations, this can be done without jeopardizing public safety.

There's nothing conservative about allowing ourselves to become so inured to a 'tough on crime' frame of mind that we would abandon tested alternatives that can yield better outcomes.

Let's help take back our country with our wallets, and don't forget to contact your senators and congressman to let them know that you don't want amnesty for illegal aliens, that you want them to restore our borders and our sovereignty.

In the Republican Party, we talk all the time about the importance of free markets and open competition. It seems to me that if we don't practice what we preach, we won't have much credibility with others.

I have not always held the position I do today on the life issue.

There was a time that I questioned the government's role in abortion.

I didn't run for office to make friends.

When you run on something definitive and then win by a significant margin, you have a mandate.

I don't get to sue just because I don't like something.

I start with a concern about the growth of federal government. I start with a perspective concerned about the growth of that power, and containing it within the bounds of the Constitution.

On the issues the Tea Party cares about, I land right in their bull's-eye.

A media-only campaign has its advantages, but it also has its very severe disadvantages.

I absolutely believe that President Obama was born in the United States. I don't buy into the claims that he wasn't.

It borders on inconceivable that Clinton didn't know that the emails she received - and, more obviously, the emails that she created, stored and sent with the server - would contain classified information.

Simply being secretary of state didn't allow Clinton to authorize herself to deviate from the requirements of retaining and transmitting classified documents, materials and information.

The truth is our friend.

We need to move back toward a free market.

We don't have a free market in health care. We need to connect customers up with the cost of care. And to drive innovation that way.

I was one of the founding members of State Legislators for Legal Immigration.

I've always been one of those folks who think competition is actually a good thing. And if we're going to preach it as a party, we need to practice it.

It is hard to argue that the conservative movement is not having success.

When Eric Cantor lost, being the only majority leader in history to lose a primary, that was pretty - and still is - earth-shattering in Virginia and across the country.

Really, given that God does judge nations, it's amazing that abortion has run as far and foully as it has without what I would consider to be a greater imposition of judgment on this country. Who knows what the future holds?

The notion that those of us that are pro-life because we love children - is that so terrible? Really? Is that so terrible?

I was the first attorney general to court to fight Obamacare - about 30 minutes after the president signed the bill.