The Ukraine has a long history of either being part of the Soviet Union or within that sphere.

It is illegal for the CIA to spy on Americans and an affront to our Republic to spy on the Senate.

I rode my bike to school every day from age five to age fourteen. It was a small town - you could go anywhere.

I've repeatedly voted for sanctions against Iran. And I think all options should be on the table to prevent them from having nuclear weapons.

Do you hate poor people or do you just hate poor people with jobs?

Big and oppressive government has long been the enemy of freedom, something black Americans know all too well.

I think a policy of isolationism toward Cuba is misplaced and hasn't worked.

I can use most of the tools that every American teenager can master. Maybe not all of them.

American inventiveness and the desire to build developed because we were guaranteed the right to own our success.

I'm not questioning Dick Cheney's motives. There's a chance for a conflict of interest. At one point in time, he was opposed to going into Baghdad. Then he was out of office and involved in the defense industry, and then he became for going into Baghdad.

Mandatory minimum sentencing has disproportionately affected blacks, Hispanics and others who often don't have the financial means to fight back.

What I've always said is that I'm opposed to institutional racism, and I would've, had I've been alive at the time, I think, had the courage to march with Martin Luther King to overturn institutional racism, and I see no place in our society for institutional racism.

If I had been in President Obama's shoes, I would have acted more decisively and strongly against ISIS.

I would never belong to any club that excluded anybody for race.

The right to life is guaranteed to all Americans in the Declaration of Independence, and ensuring this is upheld is the Constitutional duty of all members of Congress.

We must always embrace individual liberty and enforce the constitutional rights of all Americans-rich and poor, immigrant and native, black and white.

I think we need to treat everybody with dignity.

If any Republican nominee wants to run on the idea that borrowing money and printing it up and sending it to foreign countries that often hate us and burn our flag and think it's a good idea, feel free to run on that issue. But it's not really popular with the people.

Each one of my budgets has taken a meat axe to foreign aid, because I think we ought to quit sending it to countries that hate us.

Washington has incentivized the militarization of local police precincts by using federal dollars to help municipal governments build what are essentially small armies - where police departments compete to acquire military gear that goes far beyond what most of Americans think of as law enforcement.

The realization is dawning that government doesn't work. In Silicon Valley, they already get this. And they are bright enough to be asking what we can do to solve problems.

In 1997, I, along with 200 other young ophthalmologists formed the National Board of Ophthalmology to protest the American Board of Ophthalmology's decision to grandfather in the older ophthalmologists and not require them to recertify.

Was anybody else bothered by the sight of mine-resistant vehicles and guns pointed at unarmed men in Ferguson?

I've been accused of wanting to allow terrorists to have weapons to attack America.