Washington is horribly broken. We are encountering a day of reckoning and this movement, this Tea Party movement, is a message to Washington that we're unhappy and that we want things done differently.
I'm for immigration reform. I think the system's horribly broken, and we need to do something about it.
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 don't set up an implicit promise from the federal government that everybody is getting bailed out.
Income inequality is worse in towns run by Democrat mayors than in towns run by Republican mayors.
We need to notice and be aware of the injustices embedded in our criminal system.
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.
The government has a history of not treating people fairly, from the internment of Japanese Americans in World War II to African-Americans in the Civil Rights era.
One of the things, one of the things that really got to me was the thing in Houston where you had the government, the mayor actually, trying to get the sermons of ministers. When the government tries to invade the church to enforce its own opinion on marriage, that's when it's time to resist.
I would have voted 'no' on the Iraq war and 'yes' to Afghanistan.
The West is in for a long, irregular confrontation - not with terrorism, which is simply a tactic, but with radical Islam.
I think a policy of isolationism toward Cuba is misplaced and hasn't worked.
I would support immediate construction of the Keystone Pipeline.
I would rather not have contentious interviews. I'd rather do 30 minutes with Charlie Rose, laid back in a La-Z-Boy chair.
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 problem is that in our country, they make it almost impossible for politicians to win anything. In England it's easier to win a libel suit.
I think a lot of things could be handled locally.
The Ukraine has a long history of either being part of the Soviet Union or within that sphere.
Democrats in Louisville were led by Courier-Journal editor Henry Watterson and were implacably opposed to blacks voting.
The Republican promise is for policies that create economic growth. Republicans believe lower taxes, less regulation, balanced budgets, a solvent Social Security and Medicare will stimulate economic growth.