Individual warrants every day are used to arrest dangerous people.

America is a world leader, but we should not be its policeman or ATM.

Let's means-test benefits - let's means-test Social Security and Medicare and make the rich pay more for these benefits.

The Democrats promised equalizing outcomes through unlimited federal assistance while Republicans offered something that seemed less tangible - the promise of equalizing opportunity through free markets.

The Supreme Court must strike down the government's illegal spying program as a violation of our Fourth Amendment right to privacy.

I think that most manufacturing and mining should be under the purview of state authorities.

You can't promulgate injustice without consequences.

I would rather not have contentious interviews. I'd rather do 30 minutes with Charlie Rose, laid back in a La-Z-Boy chair.

Whether you breach the Fourth Amendment 20 percent of the time or 100 percent of the time, it's still not the point. The point is whether or not you still collect millions of people's information with a single warrant.

I'm proud of my decade-long fight to have all ophthalmologists re-certify, regardless of age.

I read all of Ayn Rand's novels when I was 17.

Does the owner of the restaurant own his restaurant? Or does the government own his restaurant?

A Tea Party tidal wave is coming.

The real debate is, when does life begin? When life begins, it deserves protection.

The defeat of Obamacare will come from the realization that the very idea of a government-administered health care system is absurd... and by people opting out of the system and developing workarounds.

If you force legislators to balance, at the end of the day, if it has to be balanced, then they step up and they become legislators and can find out where to cut.

We woke up one day, and Pakistan had nuclear weapons.

If you refuse to acknowledge that there is any waste that can be culled from the military budget, you are a big-government conservative, and you cannot lay claim to balancing the budget.

How will we defend ourselves if the Patriot Act expires? Well, perhaps we could just rely on the Constitution and demonstrate exactly how traditional judicial warrants can gather all the info we need - and how bulk collection really hasn't worked.

America has much greatness left in her.

Of strong importance to me is the defense of minority rights, not just racial minorities, but ideological and religious minorities.

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

In America, as opposed to the old country, success was based on merit.

I believe that in the historic and religious nature, marriage is between a man and a woman.

I give thousands of interviews, and I'm probably about as open as anybody in Washington as far as access goes, so I'll continue to do that.

The sacrifice of our personal liberty for security is and will forever be a false choice.

I don't think you will meet anyone in Israel who will ever burn the American flag.

My first choice had always been my father. He's still my first pick. Now that the nominating process is over, tonight, I'm happy to announce that I'm going to be supporting Governor Romney.

I tell people I won't vote to go to war unless I'm ready to go or send my kids.

I think if you have a two-story office and you hire someone who's handicapped, it might be reasonable to let him have an office on the first floor rather than the government saying you have to have a $100,000 elevator.

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

We should not have the U.S. government buying stock in American industries - the financial industry or any other industry.

We as Republicans have taken the easy way out a lot of times.

I think my dad has helped me tremendously.

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

People don't like to vote against something that's so incredibly popular.

Everybody is looking for an election where they can do something and participate.

What I say is, national defense is the most important thing we do in Washington, but there's still waste in the military budget.

You shouldn't have one opinion when you're running and another when you're president.

You don't go into politics unless you want to win.

All issues of crime are better addressed at the state level.

The power to tax and spend is restricted by the enumerated powers.

For most of our history, no one dared to tell Americans, 'you don't build that.'

My great-grandfather, like many, came to this country in search of the American dream.

And when the time is right, I hope that African Americans will again look to the party of emancipation, civil liberty, and individual freedom.

Every child in every neighborhood, of every color, class and background, deserves a school that will help them succeed.

The Republican Party's history is rich and chock full of emancipation and black history.

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

To understand how Republicans lost the African American vote, we must first understand how we won the African American vote.

If you hear me out, I believe you'll discover that what motivates me more than any other issue is the defense of everyone's rights.