"My budget is similar to the Penny Plan, which cuts 1 percent a year for five or six years and balances the budget."
"Many Americans who have suffered during a recession have had to cut their spending 1 percent, and they didn't like doing it, but they were able to do it to get their family's finances back in order."
"I don't think I've ever used the word 'gay rights,' because I don't really believe in rights based on your behavior."
"I think it's a bad business decision to exclude anybody from your restaurant - but, at the same time, I do believe in private ownership."
"In a free society, we will tolerate boorish people, who have abhorrent behavior, but if we're civilized people, we publicly criticize that, and don't belong to those groups or don't associate with those people."
"William Lloyd Garrison was up there with Frederick Douglass being thrown off trains and going through what happened in the 1960s in 1840 in Boston."
"No one politician should be allowed to judge the guilt, to charge an individual, to judge the guilt of an individual and to execute an individual."
"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."
"If you have 'too big to fail' for cities or for states, and they believe they'll be bailed out, they'll continue to make unwise decisions."
"You don't set up an implicit promise from the federal government that everybody is getting bailed out."
"It seems the most common thing for serial interventionists to do these days is to lob the term 'isolationist' at anyone who does not agree with their latest folly, and then set up a straw man about those people not wanting to be involved in the world."
"People say America is exceptional. I agree, but it's not the complexion of our skin or the twists in our DNA that make us unique. America is exceptional because we were founded upon the notion that everyone should be free to pursue life, liberty, and happiness."
"What America needs is not Robin Hood but Adam Smith."
"I was elected to the Senate in 2010 by people worried about our country, worried about our kids and their future."
"Every debate in Washington is about how much to increase spending - a little or a lot."
"We live in a democracy, and people are free to sometimes choose the wrong leader."
"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?"
"The West is in for a long, irregular confrontation - not with terrorism, which is simply a tactic, but with radical Islam."
"Some Libertarians argue that Western occupation fans the flames of radical Islam; I agree. But I don't agree that, absent Western occupation, that radical Islam 'goes quietly into that good night.'"
"The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world. Many of those people deserve to be in prison; however, some of them do not."
"Throughout the 1970s, '80s and '90s, federal mandatory minimum laws were implemented that forced judges to deliver sentences far lengthier than they would have if allowed to use their own discretion. The result has been decades of damage, particularly to young people."
"Mandatory minimum sentencing has disproportionately affected blacks, Hispanics and others who often don't have the financial means to fight back."
"Judges can determine fair justice far better than any inane federal mandate."
"The right to life is guaranteed to all Americans in the Declaration of Independence, and ensuring this is upheld is the Constitutional duty of all members of Congress."
"The Life at Conception Act legislatively declares what most Americans believe and what science has long known - that human life begins at the moment of conception and, therefore, is entitled to legal protection from that point forward."
