I think if you have a two-story office and you hire someone who's handicapped, it might be reasonable to let him have an office on the first floor rather than the government saying you have to have a $100,000 elevator.

I think if you have a two-story office and you hire someone who's handicapped, it might be reasonable to let him have an office on the first floor rather than the government saying you have to have a $100,000 elevator.

You know, when Republicans were in charge, we doubled the debt. But, now, our concern is the Democrats are in charge and they're tripling the debt. So, really, our concern is that we want smaller government.

Washington is horribly broken. We are encountering a day of reckoning and this movement, this Tea Party movement, is a message to Washington that we're unhappy and that we want things done differently.

I have a message from the Tea Party, a message that is loud and clear and does not mince words. We've come to take our government back.

What I've always said is that I'm opposed to institutional racism, and I would've, had I've been alive at the time, I think, had the courage to march with Martin Luther King to overturn institutional racism, and I see no place in our society for institutional racism.

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.

'Peace through Strength' only works if you have and show strength.

A Tea Party tidal wave is coming.

A free society will abide unofficial, private discrimination, even when that means allowing hate-filled groups to exclude people based on the color of their skin.

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

All issues of crime are better addressed at the state level.

Although I was born into the America that experiences and believes in opportunity, my trips to Ferguson, Detroit, Atlanta, and Chicago have revealed that there is an undercurrent of unease.

America has much greatness left in her.

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

American inventiveness and the desire to build developed because we were guaranteed the right to own our success.

And when the time is right, I hope that African Americans will again look to the party of emancipation, civil liberty, and individual freedom.

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

As a Christian, I believe in redemption. And I believe in second chances.

As a doctor, I will take it and make it my mission to heal the nation, reverse the course of Obamacare, and repeal every last bit of it.

As long as I sit at Henry Clay's desk, I will remember his lifelong desire to forge agreement, but I will also keep close to my heart the principled stand of his cousin, Cassius Clay, who refused to forsake the life of any human, simply to find agreement.

As president, I would promote a Fair and Flat Tax plan, known as the 'EZ Tax.' My tax plan would be the largest tax cut in American history, reforming individual, business, and worker taxes.

Because Republicans believe that the federal government is limited in its function-some have concluded that Republicans are somehow inherently insensitive to minority rights. Nothing could be further from the truth.

Big and oppressive government has long been the enemy of freedom, something black Americans know all too well.

Black unemployment is twice white unemployment and has been for decade after decade.

Both sides of the aisle - Republican and Democrat - have been unwilling and afraid to address the deficit, and someone's got to.

Bulk collection of phone records didn't find or stop the Tsarnaev brothers from the massacre in Boston. In fact, one might argue that all of the money spent on bulk collection takes money away from human analysts that might have noticed the older brother's trip to become radicalized in Chechnya.

Communism can't survive the captivating allure of capitalism.

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

Democrats in Louisville were led by Courier-Journal editor Henry Watterson and were implacably opposed to blacks voting.

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

Do you hate poor people or do you just hate poor people with jobs?

Does the owner of the restaurant own his restaurant? Or does the government own his restaurant?

Even before ObamaCare, the government took care of the bottom 5 or 10 percent of the public who were on Medicaid.

Even under Obamacare, there are people that get subsidized insurance. But that has a $6,000 deductible. What do you think they do with that $6,000 deductible? They are still a nonpayer.

Every child in every neighborhood, of every color, class and background, deserves a school that will help them succeed.

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

Everybody is looking for an election where they can do something and participate.

Evil can and is overcome every minute of every day.

For most of our history, no one dared to tell Americans, 'you don't build that.'

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.

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

Freedom is popular. Bring it on.

General Hayden knows full well the powerful and invasive nature of metadata.

Giving someone a one-time stimulus check, or a one-time tax cut that expires doesn't allow the predictability that business needs.

Government can supply bread, but it can't mend a broken spirit.

How will we defend ourselves if the Patriot Act expires? Well, perhaps we could just rely on the Constitution and demonstrate exactly how traditional judicial warrants can gather all the info we need - and how bulk collection really hasn't worked.

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

I believe that in the historic and religious nature, marriage is between a man and a woman.