But last year there were 540,000 people, roughly, detained coming across the border illegally. Forty-five thousand of them came from countries other than Mexico, demonstrating the fact that Mexico itself now is a pathway into the United States for people all around the world, and we don't know what their intentions are.

My goal has always been to figure out how we can advance the conservative cause.

Nobody else in the world can do what we can do. And nobody else is willing to do it for altruistic reasons. I mean, we don't go into places like Iraq to grab their oil or colonize their country. We go there to deliver, as George W. Bush said, the blessings of liberty.

Justices are not politicians. They don't run on a political platform, and senators should not ask them to do so.

Democracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provision for those who have no time to work.

Our founders got it right when they wrote in the Declaration of Independence that our rights come from nature and nature's God, not from government.

I want to stop directing so many of resources to the military budget and focus them here at home. I believe government should invest in public infrastructure.

During my campaign, people of my age and younger said consistently that they would not vote because their votes simply no longer matter and because no government or member of Parliament cared a whit about their problems and their striving for employment.