No FBI director would or should ever pledge fealty to a president. They have an obligation to be objective and independent.

They're not everything. They're important. Substance is more important than optics. He got the decision right and he did the wrong way.

This is a huge distraction and it's going to remain one for a while until -- until they appoint someone beyond reproach and that burden, as I keep saying, is on them to do.

The president has the authority to remove the director of the FBI because on a bipartisan basis. Confidence has been lost in the man.

President Trump is going to have to pick someone that ordinary Americans can look to with confidence in taking on this role.

So last summer, Director Comey acted like a prosecutor with final decision making authority and not an investigator, OK? That was a huge mistake bipartisanly criticized and something like that for the director of the FBI can never be…

No, I don't, and also understand while the attorney general is unique in the Cabinet, and that they do need to make independent legal decisions, for instance prosecution decisions and so forth. When the President gives a directive, the…

If Assange was involved in helping them do it or offering them ways to hide their tracks and so forth, essentially he became a conspirator as opposed to merely a news outlet that might publish materials that others decided to leak without…

If you're going to follow the rule of law and if you're going to be tough in enforcing this law, then this is something that can reasonably be seen to be prosecuted.

The one person on earth that Donald Trump shouldn't be messing around with is Judge Gorsuch in part because he's his own selection to be the next Supreme Court justice.

Independence is critically important.

Part of the brilliance of the foundation of this order is because they use President Obama's classification of the countries from which danger from terrorism arises -- and Congress'.

It is a violation of the separation of powers for the courts to second-guess the president's assessment.

He's really challenging separation of powers in this country, and that's just unacceptable for a president.

Ted Cruz is the only candidate in the history of the world has gone to Iowa and told the good people of Iowa that big corn and ethanol has to go and won Iowa.

I will finish by calling your attention to very serious concerns I have about threats to due process rights referenced in the President's rhetoric.

All sections of that electorate are upset with the utterly failed leadership we have right now from John Boehner in the House and the whole House leadership and Mitch McConnell and the leadership in the senate.

He hasn't embraced conservative principles or positions. He has spoken awkwardly on issues of faith at best and yet, he is the frontrunner because he is bashing the teeth in of the republican establishment.

If Cuccinelli fought back, stuck with the base, got the base out, then maybe he could have actually won this race.

Absolutely. None of this is beyond EPA's reach through more explicit authority that they have elsewhere in the Act.

The people hurt first and the people hurt worst economically are the poor.

Nullification is an incorrect term and it suggests you don't know history.

This kind of gaming of the system is an affront to proper procedure and the rule of law and it really should concern people across the spectrum.

These regulations make coal more expensive and less desirable to use, which means the economy of southwest Virginia... will be devastated by the destruction of the coal industry.

the poorest part of my State will face the largest price increases, including part of Appalachia, one of the poorest parts of America.