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Laws don't really restrain people. Ninety-eight percent of people follow a virtuous course with or without laws.

I am ready to debate how we fight terrorism without giving up our liberty.

I support the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act.

I think those who have wanted regime [of Bashar Assad] change have made a mistake.

I will not vote to send my sons, or your sons, daughters, brothers, sisters or friends to fight for a stalemate.

To understand how Republicans lost the African American vote, we must first understand how we won the African American vote.

My belief has always been that national defense is the most important thing we do, but we shouldn't borrow to pay for it.

I give thousands of interviews, and I'm probably about as open as anybody in Washington as far as access goes, so I'll continue to do that.

I have allowed the president to pick his political appointees ... But I will not sit quietly and let him shred the Constitution.

Appalachia, my state, eastern Kentucky, has a large amount of poverty.

If there were an ounce of courage in this body I would be joined by other senators ... saying they will not tolerate this.

You can tell a person's religion 85 percent of the time from their phone records.

Some in Washington say that you have to trade your liberty for security.

I think if we ban certain religions, if we censor the Internet, I think that at that point the terrorists will have won.

I, for one, will remain constantly vigilant of a government that admits its transgressions of liberty only when they are caught lying.

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

I would introduce and support legislation to send Roe v. Wade back to the states.

The problem is that in our country, they make it almost impossible for politicians to win anything. In England it's easier to win a libel suit.

We do not project power from bankruptcy court. We're borrowing a million dollars a minute. It's got to stop somewhere.

You don't go into politics unless you want to win.

What is immoral for an individual to do, is immoral for a government to do

I would have never released the sanctions [for Iran] before there was consistent evidence of compliance.

When we toppled [Muammar] Gadhafi in Libya, I think that was a mistake. I think ISIS grew stronger, we had a failed state, and we were more at risk.

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.

We still need to be conscious of the fact that Russia has intercontinental ballistic missiles.

Still people want to topple [Bashar] Assad. And then there will be chaos, and I think ISIS will then be in charge of Syria.

The Hepatitis B vaccine is now given to newborns. We sometimes give five and six vaccines all at one time.

What I say is, national defense is the most important thing we do in Washington, but there's still waste in the military budget.

What ObamaCare did was take some of the things we did for the poor and expanded the government to basically the whole marketplace.

If our freedom is taken, the American dream will wither and die.

The more we can have peaceful trade both with Russia, with China, and with others, you know, there's a self interest in this for everyone.

I would argue that the objective evidence shows that big government is not a friend to African Americans.

I'm a Reagan conservative. Reagan did negotiate with the Soviets. But you have to negotiate from a position of strength.

The Fourth Amendment was what we fought the revolution over!

I tell people I won't vote to go to war unless I'm ready to go or send my kids.

Really, having a gun registry and having to rely on the government to keep it secret, the government isn't so great at keeping confidences.

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

Well, let's be clear I'm the only one on the stage who actually has a five-year budget that balances.

Fear & complacency allow power to accumulate & liberty & privacy to suffer

I'm not against the NSA. I'm not against spying; I'm not against looking at phone records.

I think we're never fully protected, but I think we need to do everything we can to stop threats to us.

Every debate in Washington is about how much to increase spending - a little or a lot.

Do we fear terrorism so much that we throw out our Constitution, and are we unwilling and afraid to debate our Constitution?

A Tea Party tidal wave is coming.

We should not have drug laws or a court system that disproportionately punishes the black community.

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

If someone has Ebola at a cocktail party, they're contagious and you can catch it from them.

Roll back federal spending to 2008 levels.

If you go to prison, your child support adds up.

Evil can and is overcome every minute of every day.

Republicans who criticize the use of two languages, I think, make a great mistake.

We didn't create ISIS - ISIS created themselves, but we will stop them, and one of the ways we stop them is by not funding them, and not arming them.

Secretary [John] Kerry has called Civil War [in Syria] an unbelievably small war that we're going to get involved with.

Toppling secular dictators in the Middle East has only led to chaos and the rise of radical Islam.

Income inequality is worse in towns run by Democrat mayors than in towns run by Republican mayors.

I'm in favor of everything with regards to ending institutional racism.

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

My great-grandfather, like many, came to this country in search of the American dream.

It isn't hard to find injustice around us, but we must not let injustice smear the good deeds that do occur everyday.

Foreign aid is not something the vast majority of Americans support, but definitely not conservatives.

We don't need bigger government. We need to shrink the size of government.

I think a lot of things could be handled locally.

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.

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

Let's overwhelm the Castro regime with iPhones, iPads, American cars and American ingenuity.

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

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

My budget is similar to the Penny Plan, which cuts 1 percent a year for five or six years and balances the budget.

I don't think I've ever used the word 'gay rights,' because I don't really believe in rights based on your behavior.

The West is in for a long, irregular confrontation - not with terrorism, which is simply a tactic, but with radical Islam.

Nobody should be sent indefinitely into detention; everybody should have their day in court.

I don't program or code or anything like that.

The Republican platform specifically says we don't believe in bailing out private business, and yet we did.

You either believe in the Constitution, or you don't.

I'm for immigration reform. I think the system's horribly broken, and we need to do something about it.

There is a legitimate role for the police to keep the peace, but there should be a difference between a police response and a military response.

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

Individual warrants every day are used to arrest dangerous people.

After all the sacrifice in Afghanistan and Iraq, why do we find ourselves in a more dangerous world?

I think we defeat terrorism by showing them that we do not fear them.

I'm the leading voice in America for not arming the allies of ISIS.

I don't think I'm really open to having Washington change me.

I'm being unfairly targeted by a bunch of hacks and haters.

I say not one penny more to countries that are burning our flag.

I would prefer the [USA] government to be the policeman and not the businessman.

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

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.

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

I don't think you will meet anyone in Israel who will ever burn the American flag.

People don't like to vote against something that's so incredibly popular.

In some communities, I show up, and they say, 'Well, we haven't seen our Democrat congressman in 10 years.'

For too long, we've attached some mythic notion to government solutions, and yet, 40 years after we began the War on Poverty, poverty still abounds.

Conservatives have always wanted border security before we had immigration reform.

If I had been in President Obama's shoes, I would have acted more decisively and strongly against ISIS.

We need to notice and be aware of the injustices embedded in our criminal system.

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

Marriage has always been a state and local issue.

Perhaps it is time to be more careful what we ask government to do, and where we allow it to become part of our lives.

I would support immediate construction of the Keystone Pipeline.

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