It is critical that special counsels have the independence and resources they need to lead investigations.Collection: Independence
Democrats creating the expectation that judges should act as politicians in robes is a dangerous precedent to set, threatening the very independence of the judiciary.Collection: Independence
When officers' actions violate their duty, justice should be served in accordance with our legal system.Collection: Legal
We don't classify all doctors as incompetent because of the infrequent instances of medical malpractice. We don't use the example of one bad teacher in our children's school to draw a negative conclusion of the entire teaching profession. We should apply that same rational standard when it comes to how we view law enforcement.Collection: Teacher
I think that you find out what your boss wants you to do, and you do more. To me, that's work ethic. Because, if you demonstrate that your capabilities extend past your current job, they'll probably give you a better job.
I'm an organizational guy.
As a freedom-lover and avid outdoorsman, I understand the importance of protecting the Second Amendment, which has been under attack by liberal special interest groups funded by elitist billionaires.
One of the problems fundamental to health care in the United States is access and cost.
Everyone knows that my key drivers to moving health care policies is improving access and reducing costs and improving outcomes.
The number-one defender of the Second Amendment rights is the National Rifle Association. The NRA works tirelessly to elect pro-Second Amendment candidates, and it fights fearlessly to win tough public policy battles and preserve those rights.
As the former state speaker of the North Caroline House of Representatives, I helped push two landmark bills that protected and expanded gun rights for citizens.
The NRA is a true grass-roots organization, and the collective power of its membership is simply unparalleled.
Law enforcement officers are entrusted with a tremendous responsibility; that is why we hold them to such a high standard. With that said, there are a small number of officers who have not lived up to that standard.
To indiscriminately cast all law enforcement as enemies of our communities is to engage in an attempt to divide our nation by turning Americans against each other.
We should refuse to settle for a deal that fails to secure the release of American hostages and paves Iran's path toward realizing its nuclear weapon ambitions.
Federal dollars and resources come with so much red tape that state and local experts can't use that funding for initiatives that are working the best or are most needed.
BDS is not a typical act of political correctness, undertaken by radical academics whose usual prey is the youth of America. This is a worldwide movement designed to destroy the one democracy in the Middle East and the hopes of people who have occupied that land for over three thousand years.
If Israel did not exist, the United Nations would go out of business.
Standing up for Israel at home validates those fundamental principles of freedom enshrined in our Constitution.
If the BDS Movement was isolated to a few tenured college outliers, that would be easy enough to handle. Unfortunately, it is not.
Republicans should remember that when Trump campaigned, he wasn't holding up a conservative manifesto at every rally.
Democrats misinterpreted the mandate for change in 2008 as an ideological mandate to move the country sharply to the left. They rammed through policies like ObamaCare and Dodd-Frank with little, if any, bipartisan support.
I resolve to work with my colleagues to succeed in producing the good rather than failing to produce the perfect.
We owe it to the American people to set aside the areas where our ideology may prevent progress and find common ground where there are plenty of opportunities to produce good results.
I think it has just been ingrained in me since an early age that the harder you worked, the more successful you were.
My dad would much rather work a couple jobs than be on government assistance.
'Intensity' is a good word. It's like ambition, if it's not ambition at expense of someone else.
I've been a paperboy, a short-order cook, a warehouse clerk, and, eventually, a partner at IBM.
The Senate could use more people who had to sweat for a living and fewer of the politicians who made this mess.
You have to make some hard decisions when you're speaker.
Greece has to stay in the euro.
A Greek exit from the E.U. and the euro would mean the Greek economy would be difficult to sustain.
When I was speaker in North Carolina, the state was gripped with a deficit, and we made a fundamental policy decision to adopt austerity budgets for four years.
I think the best way to fight your detractors is to produce positive results and not think about them, but think about winning the hearts and minds of North Carolinians - or Americans - on good policy.
You're always going to have your detractors.
If you just focus on producing good outcomes, all that other stuff sorts itself out.
I want to create an economy where minimum wage is a very brief stepping stone to higher-paying jobs so people can realize their dreams.
Dot Helms and North Carolina are one and the same.
A paperwork error can get you on the fly list. A name similar to someone else can get you on the fly list, so there's any number of opportunities where mistakes or abuses could probably put somebody in that horrible position of a government agency really clawing back your rights.
Anytime ISIS takes ground, it's a bad thing.
I want to go to Washington and clean up Kay Hagan's mess.
I am a U.S. senator from North Carolina. I'm worried about doing the business on the Capitol Hill. I'm not going to get into the parlor games and the political discussions about a separate and co-equal branch.
Barack Obama and Kay Hagan think that the minimum wage needs to be the same in the mountains of North Carolina and in the city of Boston - it makes no sense to me.
What I want to do is create jobs that make the minimum wage irrelevant.
Instead of focusing on this sort of defeatist mentality where we've gotta up the minimum wage, why don't we focus on creating better-paying jobs?
My Democratic colleagues, many of whom hold law degrees, should know better than to intentionally oversimplify court rulings to mislead the public and score political points.
We already have two branches of federal government that factor political considerations into their decision-making, and our Founding Fathers determined long ago that we don't need a third.
In politics, as in physics, every reaction is met with an equal and opposite reaction.
Nothing could be more important for a child affected by Zika virus than to have continuity of care, seamlessly from before birth to after birth.
I believe that what we should do first and foremost is seal the border. The Republicans and Democrats have both failed on this issue for decades. And one of the reasons why is I don't think we have stabilized the problem by taking credible steps to seal the border. Then let's discuss what we do with the population who is illegally present.