The death penalty is a barbaric anachronism, a crude instrument not of justice but of revenge. Most countries banished it long ago. This country should banish it now.

Conservatives have a crucial role to play in shaping the future American health-care system to enhance and support enterprise, innovation, individual responsibility—to resist open-ended spending, state planning, and the risk that social insurance will penalize effort and success. It’s past time to accept reality, quit promising the impossible, and do the work that a democracy that seeks both equity and efficiency should expect from its more conservative-minded thinkers and politicians.

We’re not going to do a replacement. If they repeal without a replacement, they will own it. Democrats will not then step up to the plate and come up with a half-baked solution that we will partially own. It’s all theirs.

It's change versus the status quo, and when Donald Trump is president, the change will be huge.

California has some of the most ambitious climate targets around. California is essentially offering itself as a guinea pig in the world’s most important policy experiment.

We will have disagreements, but we will disagree as friends and never stop working together toward victory.

There's so much work to do. We will not accept the current state of our country because it's too hard to change. That's not the America I know.

His vision of America is one where we Americans are kind of helpless. We need to be rescued… I can't really imagine him on a white horse, but that seems to be what he is telling us: 'I alone can fix it.

I voted for Rubio in 2010, and this time around I decided to support the conservative who went to Washington and did what they said they were going to do.