"I don’t consider war to be a game and that hundreds of thousands of people are at risk of being killed."
"I wouldn't have done it."
"They’re afraid of what I’m saying, so they think they’re going to punish me, I can’t go to the picnic, as if somehow that’s going to make me more conciliatory."
"I just find this incredibly petty."
"I’m arguing from a true belief and worry that our country is mired in debt and getting worse, and they choose to react by uninviting my grandson to the picnic."
"Tariffs are taxes, and the power to tax belongs to Congress—not the president."
"I wouldn't have done it. The images you saw in the Soviet Union and North Korea, we were proud not to be that."
"I think I’m the first senator in the history of United States to be uninvited to the White House picnic."
"I wouldn’t have done it."
"I can't, in good conscience, give up every principle that I stand for and every principle that I was elected upon, and that's that we can't accumulate more debt."
"My commitment to protecting life isn’t just personal, it’s rooted in both science and principle. Life begins at conception, and I’ve spent my time in the Senate fighting to protect the right to life."
"This bill is the opposite of conservative, and we should not pass it."