“I have never supported amnesty, and I led the fight against Chuck Schumer’s gang of eight amnesty legislation in the Senate.”

Every candidate is going to come to you and say they are the most conservative person that ever lived.

In the 13 months I’ve been in the Senate, it has become apparent to me the single thing that Republican politicians hate and fear the most, and that is when they’re forced to tell the truth. It makes their heads explode.

My touchstone for every question is the Constitution.

Well, guess what, I’m Cuban! And no self-respecting Cuban man of the era would let his wife work.

ISIS and Iran have declared war on America, and we need a commander in chief who will do everything necessary to keep our children safe.

Social justice is group psychology, it’s group rights, it’s collectivisim, and it’s a negation of individual responsibility, which is what the Bible teaches. Individual responsibility. And of course, social justice leads very quickly to socialism, and ultimately to communism.

I’ve spent the past month in Washington D.C. and it is terrific to be back in America.

Start being biblically correct, instead of politically correct.

Donald [Trump]. I understand rules are very hard for you. They’re very confusing.

We deserve leaders who stand for principal, who unite us all behind shared values, who cast aside anger for love. That is the standard we should expect from everybody.

Theirs is the party that … responds to the death of Americans at Benghazi by asking, What difference does it make?

I will commend the Democrats for one thing. If they name Keith Ellison as the head of the DNC, then I’ll commend them for truth in advertising.

I don’t think we should be engaged in nation-building. It’s not our job to turn foreign nations into democratic utopias, to try to turn Iraq into Switzerland. It is the military’s job to hunt down and kill our enemies, to kill ISIS before they murder American citizens and they wage jihad.

Social justice is collectivism. Social justice is the rights of a group. It denies individual responsibility. It’s a negation of individual responsibility, so social justice is totally contrary to the Word of God.

I think the first and principle objective is to repeal Obamacare before it does lasting, fundamental damage to our health care system, to our individual liberty, to the relationship each of us has with his or her doctor.

I’m an optimist at heart.

Taking action means saying ‘no’ to indifference. If there is a war to be waged, it is the war against the indifference which is eating away at our societies.

If you’re playing against an aggressive side, you need to play an aggressive game.

Violence against women and girls is one of the most serious human rights issues.

To survive, our global economy must work with nature, not against it. Time to reset.

The mind always fails first, not the body. The secret is to make your mind work for you, not against you.

War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.

When you compete against everyone else, no one wants to help you. But when you compete against yourself, everyone wants to help you.

If you’re not stubborn, you’ll give up on experiments too soon. And if you’re not flexible, you’ll pound your head against the wall and you won’t see a different solution to a problem you’re trying to solve.