"Using taxes to punish the rich, in reality, punishes everyone because we are all interconnected. High taxes and excessive regulation and massive debt are not working."
"What gets lost is that the Republican Party has always been the party of civil rights and voting rights."
"Because Republicans believe that the federal government is limited in its function-some have concluded that Republicans are somehow inherently insensitive to minority rights. Nothing could be further from the truth."
"Every child in every neighborhood, of every color, class and background, deserves a school that will help them succeed."
"The Republican Party's history is rich and chock full of emancipation and black history."
"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."
"No Republican questions or disputes civil rights. I have never wavered in my support for civil rights or the civil rights act."
"I would argue that the objective evidence shows that big government is not a friend to African Americans."
"I don't care if you're a Republican or a Democrat, there is something profoundly un-American about using the brute force of government to bully someone."
"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."
"I think what happened during the Great Depression was that African Americans understood that Republicans championed citizenship and voting rights but they became impatient for economic emancipation."
"Democrats in Louisville were led by Courier-Journal editor Henry Watterson and were implacably opposed to blacks voting."
"To understand how Republicans lost the African American vote, we must first understand how we won the African American vote."
"Of strong importance to me is the defense of minority rights, not just racial minorities, but ideological and religious minorities."
"If you hear me out, I believe you'll discover that what motivates me more than any other issue is the defense of everyone's rights."
"The most important thing you will do is yet to be seen. For me, I found my important thing to do when I learned to do surgery on the eye, when I learned to restore a person's vision."
"In our state, I'm really proud of the fact that the ones who overturned Jim Crow in Kentucky were Republicans fighting against an entirely unified Democrat Party. So I am proud to be Republican. I can't imagine being anything else."
"We could try freedom for a while. We had it for a long time. That's where you sell something, and I agree to buy it because I like it. That is how we operate in most of rest of the marketplace other than health care."
"As a doctor, I will take it and make it my mission to heal the nation, reverse the course of Obamacare, and repeal every last bit of it."
"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."
"Standing up on the right to trial by jury is something that, really, a lot of people should agree with, you know, both on the Right and the Left."
"I think people are hungry for someone who will stand up on principle."
"Conservatives have always wanted border security before we had immigration reform."
"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."
"The thing is I think vaccines are one of the greatest medical breakthroughs that we have. I'm a big fan and a great fan of the history of the development of the smallpox vaccine, for example."
