Trent Franks

“I so respect Sen. McCain's service to this country, and no one certainly knows more about torture than he does, and so I recognize that.”

“My smile will always be broken, but I'll always be grateful for the chance to get to do what I get to do.”

“Weakness is provocative.”

“Nuclear missiles don't discriminate on party lines when they land.”

“My priorities? Assisting our allies, the Kurds, in their fight against ISIS.”

“I'm a big defense hawk and a big fiscal conservative, but in this case, Pakistan continues to imprison the man who gave us Osama bin Laden and continue to have a major ideological bent within the middle echelons of their government that, I think, should cause all of us pause given the size and nature of their nuclear arsenal.”

“I am both astonished and honored beyond expression to be chosen as your 2011 Christian Statesman of the Year.”

“We simply have never been able to predict what our next challenge will be.”

“Either the Obamacare is a dead letter, or the origination clause is; we can't have both.”

“My deepest desire is to do the thing that is first and foremost just.”

“The administration has taken its inexcusable apathy a step further, declaring that even abiding by the few token sanctions in place isn't truly necessary, as evidenced by the now 20 countries to which the Obama administration has granted waivers to continue doing business with Iran.”

“I think if you hearken back to partial-birth abortion... everybody said, you know, it's not constitutional. It can't pass; it can't go anywhere, and it took time to do that, and it even had to succeed a presidential veto. But it eventually did.”

“Donald Trump has not always been pro-life, and I hope that his conversion is complete.”

“What if we move to a path to legalization? How do we reconcile that with justice and fairness with those that come here legally?”

“A big goal of the liberal Democrats in Congress is to try to do away with any effective cooperation to enforce federal immigration laws.”

“It's a strong country, but Mr. Obama seems to be doing everything he can to hold it back.”

“At the very least, Secretary Clinton should publicly call for the unequivocal release of Saeed Abedini.”

“I think Paul Ryan would make a great speaker. And people like him are the kinds of people that we need.”

“The Muslim Brotherhood has decades of violent history covertly operating in the United States and is recognized by experts as having 100 times more active members than Al-Qaeda.”

“Our focus should be on the more than 70 cures and treatments that have been successfully produced from other forms of stem cell research that do not destroy a human life.”