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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

America has much greatness left in her.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

A Tea Party tidal wave is coming.

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

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

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

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

You can't promulgate injustice without consequences.

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

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