Our potential adversaries are watching us, and they have seen what has happened to us... This is why we're dealing with a very problematical and troublesome Putin, and we're dealing with Iran in a very terrible agreement we had.

People are starving for truth and leadership.

We have changing weather patterns, and we have climate change. This is the science. I hope that my party will come to be comfortable with this because we have to operate in the realm of knowledge and science.

Legislation on Lyme disease, weather patterns, helping farmers, helping veterans - these are not partisan issues.

When mainstream Muslims defeat the Islamic State, that lessens the ability of the Islamic State to recruit and fund-raise.

We should roll back Common Core.

We have to reform the entire political process. It's got to start with leadership by example.

I think abortion is a settled issue in New York.

When it comes to the SAFE Act, when it comes to rolling back Common Core, I recognize that I need Assembly Democrats to make that a reality.

We know there isn't anything we can say or do that will bring their loved one back. What we can do is support them and honor their sacrifice by doing everything we can, every day, to make our communities stronger and our nation better so that we may be a people worthy of their sacrifices.

As I stated shortly after retiring from the U.S. Army and first pursuing a seat in Congress in 2010, I planned to self-impose term limits.

I thank the voters of Upstate N.Y. for this privilege to serve and pledge to continue to work tirelessly on their behalf in this final term.

The decision to use military force should always be one made with the utmost caution, with U.S. interests at stake, and with the consent of Congress.

Importantly, rather than being solely concerned with U.N. approval, the president must come first to our own Congress for authorization, and I urge him to do so. Finally, I understand the impulse to take action in Syria; however, I hope the president carefully considers this matter and resists the call from some to use military force in Syria.

Intervening militarily would exacerbate - not resolve - the matter and, in the process, will Americanize the Syrian civil war.

Ultimately, for our family, the opportunity to spend increased time together, balanced with a return to academia, was one we could not pass up.

The consensus of the founders was, we don't want no government: we want limited but effective government.

Among the chartered responsibilities of the federal government were, in those areas where appropriate - such as facilitating interstate commerce - to provide for justice and domestic tranquility, the common defense, and to secure the blessings of liberty.

I have two basic votes before I vote: is it constitutional, and is it in the interests of my people. If the answer is yes to both of them, then I vote for it, and I don't care who authored it.

We've got to have a functioning government.

We need to put our priority on protecting this exceptional way of life.

My district has been hit with three 500-year floods in the last several years, so either you believe that we had a one-in-over-100-million probability that occurred, or you believe as I do that there's a new normal, and we have changing weather patterns, and we have climate change. This is the science.

For working-class families and small businesses... we have got to find ways to lower energy costs.

If I don't believe I'm the guy that's going to help defeat Cuomo, then I won't go forward.

I believe in a core set of fundamental Republican values.

I believe that the strength in America is individual families and communities.

In the effort to save America, we should never violate her.

Churches, synagogues, and mosques should be treated the same.

Escalating in Syria is not the best approach.

NED is talking about through-putting this energy out to the vicinity of Boston then taking a northern route up to Nova Scotia and then exporting it, so they're not talking about giving us any local benefits at all.

Any attempt to single out Islam would be a violation of the Constitution.

I had four combat tours, and I never saw death on a scale like I saw in Haiti. A quarter-million people lost their lives.

I've seen the human condition under the most trying of circumstances.

The idea that two political parties can't come together to get a mission done is foreign to me - and unacceptable.

We are a humane society, and one which believes that we have to help rehabilitate offenders so they turn away from crime.

Good health and safety really matters - we need to protect people against death and serious injury in the workplace.

If we have unlimited migration in perpetuity, the pressure that will put on the lives of those in and around London and the South-East, in terms of housing and pressure on public services, will be something that all of us come to understand, in my view, is simply not copable with.

We need to be self-confident, ambitious, and relentlessly internationalist in our outlook.

Judicial review has developed since the 1970s as a way for individuals to challenge decisions taken by the State.

Britain has always been a good citizen in the world. We rightly provide a safe haven for people fleeing political persecution by brutal regimes. Our legal system is often seen as a beacon for the rest of the world, with people coming from all over to study it and embed its principles into their own systems.

The arrival of DNA testing has brought new dimensions to the investigation of crime. It has brought resolution to old cases where past investigators were unable to uncover the truth. It has brought justice in new cases where once the truth might never have been known.

It was in that uncertain world that the European Convention on Human Rights was shaped. Written by Conservatives, it set out the principles which should lie behind a modern democratic state, where human rights were respected.

It is already tough to buy a house. But if we are bringing a population the size of Newcastle upon Tyne into the country every single year, if we cannot set limits on the number of people that come and work in Britain, then simple maths says it is going to be even more difficult to get on to the housing ladder.

It was never the case that prisoners were simply allowed unlimited parcels - books or otherwise... It would be a logistical impossibility to search them all, and they would provide an easy route for illegal materials.

I personally always took the view that, if you look at the case of should a Christian hotel owner have the right to exclude a gay couple from a hotel, I took the view that if it's a question of somebody who's doing a B&B in their own home, that individual should have the right to decide who does and who doesn't come into their own home.

We are concerned about benefit tourism.

We've got a very poor record on unnecessary red tape; extra cost to business; people being asked to do things they don't need to; over the top regulation, misinterpreted regulation, poor guidelines.

One thing really important is that we set out an agenda of compassionate Conservativism. That's what I've been trying to do in the Justice Department.

This is not rocket science. If you mentor and support people when they leave prison they're less likely to reoffend.

People who end up in our prisons tend to come from the most difficult backgrounds. They did not have the parental support as they grew up, as many of us enjoyed, and they struggle when they leave prison.