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.

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

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

Individual warrants every day are used to arrest dangerous people.

Democrats in Louisville were led by Courier-Journal editor Henry Watterson and were implacably opposed to blacks voting.

No American should be killed by a drone on American soil without first being charged with a crime, without first being found guilty of a crime by a court.

What America needs is not just another politician or more promises. What America needs is a revival.

You don't set up an implicit promise from the federal government that everybody is getting bailed out.

I'm not someone who's sort of still trying to figure out what I believe in.

I would have voted 'no' on the Iraq war and 'yes' to Afghanistan.

I've had an interest in politics since I was a little kid.

I was elected to the Senate in 2010 by people worried about our country, worried about our kids and their future.

I call myself a constitutional conservative.

I'm not in favor of any discrimination of any form.

Although I was born into the America that experiences and believes in opportunity, my trips to Ferguson, Detroit, Atlanta, and Chicago have revealed that there is an undercurrent of unease.

The Republican Party is an empty vessel unless we imbue it with values.

I think the key to getting rid of illegal immigration, no matter where its coming from, is that you need to have a good legal apparatus for immigration.

We've gone too far in thinking we can re-create an American democratic paradise in the Middle East.

If U.S. occupation is a primary recruitment tool and what inspires Islamic terrorists, are many of our current efforts overseas actually fighting terrorism and diminishing the threat?

In the search for culpability for the tragedy in Ferguson, I mostly blame politicians.

I have a biology degree, okay?

I would argue that you're only going to get the conservatives, particularly a Republican House, to pass immigration reform if we, as conservatives, are reassured that the border is controlled and that we get to vote on whether the border is controlled.

You know, you look at term limits, you poll term limits, 70, 80 percent of Republicans or Democrats are for it.

You can't solve a dignity problem with military force.