Senator Cruz has done well in Republican states.

If a corporation can express opinions and be protected in doing so by the First Amendment, then there's no reason logically one wouldn't think they could undertake to enjoy the other rights protected under the First Amendment.

People in this country don't realize how tyrannical the Left is. It is phenomenally intolerant of any views other than its own, and it must label them as bad, evil, malodorous in some way.

Every liberal position is built on a fallacy.

If you give me enough questions honestly answered, I can get you to the hollow core of any liberal position.

I like being home for dinner.

I was an attorney general. That was - that matters to me, and if you won't obey your own rules, there's no reason to think you'll obey any others.

I think it was in 1971 or 1974, the Supreme Court ruled marriage is not a subject that the federal government can exercise jurisdiction over, including the courts. To do that, we would need an amendment to the Constitution.

The one thing that even my staunchest opponents will admit is I'm a straight shooter and that I'm a man of my word.

I don't play golf with presidents.

I don't go hunting with kings and princes.

I look Italian, but I act Irish.

It's hard to make me speechless.

I'm more of an engineer with a law degree than I am a lawyer with an engineering degree in terms of how I think.

I have been approached to consider an appointment to the Virginia Supreme Court. I am humbled and honored to be considered for such a position, but it is not something that my wife and I have previously contemplated.

Put simply, no one in state government can create new specially protected classes except the General Assembly with the concurrence of the Governor.

One of the beauties of the Tea Party movement - and the many, many like-minded citizens that don't participate in the Tea Party movement - is the fact that it is independent.

Giving public sanction to homosexual marriage ends up redefining marriage, and it's certain to harm children.

What we can do where we live is advocate again to bring back to life the 10th Amendment, to bring back to life those boundaries in our constitutional system that were supposed to be the critical checks in the checks and balances system. Without them, we lose - gradually, we lose our liberty.

Elections are about choices.

Am I happy with the choice? No I'm not. But I'm going to make my choice, and I expect to vote for Donald Trump.

When one person does something, you look like an outlier. And whether it makes sense or not, the states get a certain level of respect from the courts that other people don't.

When you file an amicus brief, and you represent a state, the court reads your brief. It is a powerful position to make the legal assault from.

There's some bells you can't unring.

I ran for attorney general to be attorney general.

For all the criticism of me, there's one thing you won't hear anybody say, and that's that I've pulled the wool over anyone's eyes.

I don't mind knife fights. I just want the knives to come to the front.

Competition's a good thing.

I love algebra. Love it.

My wife's a gardener. I'd put Astroturf down everywhere, but I get outvoted one to one every year.

One of the reasons Americans hold Washington in such low regard is the perception that nothing ever gets done. Whatever the issue - no matter how urgent - they always seem to be 'working on it.'

I learned as a mascot that rules don't really apply to you. As long as you don't go crazy with that. You want to go be the 12th man on a football play, they might have an objection, but otherwise, if you stay out of the way of the game, you can do most anything.

We need all the transportation options that we can get in Virginia - especially options where the private sector carries all the risk and all the cost.

It is my opinion that a local school board cannot impose a mandatory fee on students taking advanced placement courses for the required taking of the Advanced Placement Examination.

I'm the most pro-liberty elected official statewide in my lifetime. It isn't even a close call, so for people who care about protecting liberty, there's never been - again, in my lifetime in Virginia - a statewide elected official who's been as aggressive and consistent about doing that as I have.

Strategies that do show evidence of effectiveness include policing that's focused on high-risk individuals or geographic areas, and/or deterrence-based approaches that hold entire gangs accountable should individual members engage in criminal behavior.

What to do about these increases in crime? Plenty of laws already exist to punish violent criminals, and research questions the level of correlation between longer sentences and lower crime rates.

Incarcerating non-violent offenders in the same population as more dangerous criminals has the effect of inculcating the former into a culture of criminality common among the latter, making them more of a risk to public safety upon release than when they originally went in.

Even without mandatory sentences, judges are still capable of levying tough penalties for serious offenses - and just as in states like Texas that have 'tough on crime' reputations, this can be done without jeopardizing public safety.

There's nothing conservative about allowing ourselves to become so inured to a 'tough on crime' frame of mind that we would abandon tested alternatives that can yield better outcomes.

Let's help take back our country with our wallets, and don't forget to contact your senators and congressman to let them know that you don't want amnesty for illegal aliens, that you want them to restore our borders and our sovereignty.

In the Republican Party, we talk all the time about the importance of free markets and open competition. It seems to me that if we don't practice what we preach, we won't have much credibility with others.

I have not always held the position I do today on the life issue.

There was a time that I questioned the government's role in abortion.

I didn't run for office to make friends.

When you run on something definitive and then win by a significant margin, you have a mandate.

I don't get to sue just because I don't like something.

I start with a concern about the growth of federal government. I start with a perspective concerned about the growth of that power, and containing it within the bounds of the Constitution.

On the issues the Tea Party cares about, I land right in their bull's-eye.

A media-only campaign has its advantages, but it also has its very severe disadvantages.