I have a duty to teach my people about their rights and protect them from being bamboozled.

Life in Somalia before the civil war was beautiful. When the war happened, I was 8 years old and at that stage of understanding the world in a different way.

I invited President Trump twice now to come meet my family and my community because he seems to have a lot of opinions about the kind of people we are.

As an immigrant, I truly believed when I was coming to this country that people had the tools necessary to life to live a life that is prosperous, that is just and free. So, every single day, I am shocked with the hypocrisy of this country. That we are the wealthiest nation in the world. But we cannot figure out how to house our homeless people.

I believe in the ideals of America, in liberty, justice, and the pursuit of happiness.

I've always said you get what you organize for.

We must see others' struggles as our own, and their success as our success, so we can speak to our common humanity.

If we are not actively fighting against regressive ideologies, we are contributing to making them grow.

I believe women and minorities often wait for permission to be invited to something; we need to stop doing that.

I am much more interested in defending my ideas than defending my identities.

Hope will be found by understanding that diversity is the essence of the American Dream and why we need each other to fulfill it.

Every student has something to offer, and every student deserves a nurturing learning environment.

There are 100 different doors to come into the conservative movement. You can disagree with 99 of them, as long as you agree on one: more-limited government.

Tax reductions are usually simpler and less distortive. I'm certainly willing to look at getting rid of tax deductions/credits, and go to dramatically reduced rates.

Americans for Tax Reform is a national taxpayer organization dedicated to opposing any and all tax increases. We work at the national, state and local level for lower taxes, less government spending and limited government.

Tax increases slow economic growth. Why would you raise taxes? We need to reform spending, the tens of trillions of unfunded liabilities can never be funded by tax increases, that can only be fixed by reducing spending.

My goal in life is to get the federal government down to half its present size and under control, and then I can write murder mysteries.

Historically, opposition to immigration in the United States has been racially and religiously motivated in the ugliest, nastiest way possible.

It would be unwise for the modern Republican Party to come across as hostile to immigration. That has been the losing position in American history for 200 years.

If you let people own their land, they take care of it. That's why privately owned land is always taken care of, and the parks look like cesspools. Nobody takes care of what everybody owns.

Everyone would have bigger and safer cars if they didn't have those CAFE standards: corporate average fuel economy.

I'm not for no taxes. That would be an anarchist. I am for lower taxes.

Stupider than France is not where we want to be on tax policy.

Our job is to make people free.