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

I want to commend the men and women at CPAC. As activists fighting for liberty, fighting for the Constitution, y’all are incredibly important. You are incredibly important number one in shocking and terrifying the mainstream media.

If the federal government is going to cost $100 million or more of your jobs going away, at a minimum the people who are elected by the people ought to have to vote and say, yes, I support taking away your job; or no, I don’t support taking away your job.

The front line with ISIS isn’t just in Iraq and Syria, it’s in Kennedy Airport and the Rio Grande. Border security is national security.

We keep hearing from [Barack] Obama and Hillary Clinton and Washington Republicans that they’re searching for these mythical moderate rebels. It’s like a purple unicorn. They never exist. These moderate rebels end up being jihadists.

Whatever the history of U.S. intervention in Iraq, our priorities now should be to protect our people and defend our national security interests, not to try to resolve an intractable religious divide some 1,500 years in the making.

What I believe is that we should defend life.

You have a right to have a feather duster. If anyone breaks in, you can make sure they’re really clean as they’re robbing your house.

I think our nation faces enormous challenges, and we need leaders who are willing to tell the truth and do the right thing regardless of the consequences.

It is very simple to be likeable in Washington. You just go along to get along. You just do what your leadership wants.

In the history of humanity, there’s never been a country like America.

A lot of my colleagues actually yell and curse at each other. I don’t do that.

I want more rules, more scrutiny, and to defend the country.

Always be sexy. I salute that message.

Remember the lessons of history – if we don’t learn from history, we’re bound to repeat it.

ISIS says they want to go back and reject modernity? Well, I think we should help them. We ought to bomb them back to the Stone Age.

We need the private sector’s help, because government is not innovating. Technology is running ahead by leaps and bound. The private sector will help, just as I helped after 9/11. But they must be engaged, and they must be asked. I will ask them. I know them.

A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests.

Many people don’t understand ring control. They think they do until they’re against someone who really understands how to set traps, how to create holes in the octagon that they fall into.

To me, atonality is against nature. There is a center to everything that exists.

It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program.

I had a hard time treating my field as if it’s horse racing, putting actors in competition against each other.

There’s only one thing you can use against pure logic, and that’s common sense.

Personally I am very much against the death penalty for several reasons.

In the deserted harbour there is yet water that laps against the quays. In the dark and silent forest, there is a leaf that falls.