"But we need to stand up for every minority.  The Bill of Rights isn't for the prom queen.  The Bill of Rights isn't for the high-school quarterback.  They're gonna be treated fairly; they always do fine.  The Bill of Rights is truly for those who might be unorthodox, who might have an unusual idea, who might not look like everybody else.  …  I said to him, "You could take an American citizen and send them to Guantanamo Bay with no trial?" and he said, "Yeah, if they're dangerous."  So I said, "It begs the question, doesn't it, who gets to decide who's dangerous and who's not?"  Anybody remember Richard Jewell, the Olympic bomber—the so-called "Olympic bomber" as it turns out?  Everybody thought he was guilty; he was "convicted" on t. v. within hours—but it turned out he wasn't—it wasn't him, he wasn't guilty.  But could you imagine if he had been a black man in the South in 1920, what would have happened to him?  The Bill of Rights is to protect minorities, whether it's the colour of your skin or the shade of your ideology.  We need to be the party that protects the rights of everyone."

“Yet it is groupthink around here. Everybody is so paranoid and saying: Oh, we can’t object to this lobby. Because this lobby is so powerful, we can’t object to them. Look, it isn’t about the ideas; it is about the freedom of speech.”

“If I were president, I would try to be one who says, you know what, I'm a Reagan Conservative. I'm someone who believes in peace through strength, and I would try to lead the country in that way knowing that our goal is peace, and that war is the last resort, not the first resort. And, that when we go to war, we go to war in a constitutional way, which means that we have to vote on it, that war is initiated by congress, not by the president, that we go to war electively . That when we go to war, we don't fight with one arm tied behind our back, we fight all out to win, but then we come home.”

“The Daily News ignores, as does the Fair Housing Act, the distinction between private and public property. Should it be prohibited for public, taxpayer-financed institutions such as schools to reject someone based on an individual's beliefs or attributes? Most certainly. Should it be prohibited for private entities such as a church, bed-and-breakfast or retirement neighborhood that doesn't want noisy children? Absolutely not. Decisions concerning private property and associations should in a free society be unhindered.”

“As both sides debate the path forward on reforming our immigration system, the BE SAFE Act provides a constitutional answer that guarantees funding for our needs on the border without taking away from other priorities or increasing the burden on American taxpayers”

“I’m for an independent, strong Israel that is not a client state and not a reliant state.”

“To defend our country we need to gather intelligence on the enemy but when the intelligence lies to Congress how are we to trust them? The phone records of law abiding citizens are none of their damn business.”