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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

I have a biology degree, okay?

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

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?

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

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.

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

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.

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

I call myself a constitutional conservative.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Individual warrants every day are used to arrest dangerous people.

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

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

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.

The Supreme Court must strike down the government's illegal spying program as a violation of our Fourth Amendment right to privacy.

I think that most manufacturing and mining should be under the purview of state authorities.

You can't promulgate injustice without consequences.

I would rather not have contentious interviews. I'd rather do 30 minutes with Charlie Rose, laid back in a La-Z-Boy chair.

Whether you breach the Fourth Amendment 20 percent of the time or 100 percent of the time, it's still not the point. The point is whether or not you still collect millions of people's information with a single warrant.

I'm proud of my decade-long fight to have all ophthalmologists re-certify, regardless of age.

I read all of Ayn Rand's novels when I was 17.

Does the owner of the restaurant own his restaurant? Or does the government own his restaurant?

A Tea Party tidal wave is coming.

The real debate is, when does life begin? When life begins, it deserves protection.

The defeat of Obamacare will come from the realization that the very idea of a government-administered health care system is absurd... and by people opting out of the system and developing workarounds.

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.

We woke up one day, and Pakistan had nuclear weapons.

If you refuse to acknowledge that there is any waste that can be culled from the military budget, you are a big-government conservative, and you cannot lay claim to balancing the budget.

How will we defend ourselves if the Patriot Act expires? Well, perhaps we could just rely on the Constitution and demonstrate exactly how traditional judicial warrants can gather all the info we need - and how bulk collection really hasn't worked.

America has much greatness left in her.

Of strong importance to me is the defense of minority rights, not just racial minorities, but ideological and religious minorities.

What gets lost is that the Republican Party has always been the party of civil rights and voting rights.