Kirk: "If there's one thing Democrats are good at, it's killing American jobs."

Kirk: "While it might be aspirational, especially for freedom-loving people like me, to believe that America - the greatest and freest nation of all time - should welcome all those who wish to enter so that they might enjoy the gifts of this land, it simply isn't pragmatic."

Kirk: "When you deliberately distort and selectively present the truth, you lie."

Kirk: "The case for socialism is always made based on an ideal and a promise. The ideal is that humans can lovingly coexist in a sharing and peaceful way. The promise is that this time, unlike failed attempts elsewhere, socialism will be implemented properly, and no citizen will suffer as a result."

Kirk: "Prisons are called 'correctional facilities' because the goal is to correct the behavior that sent people there."

Kirk: "Requirements for an ID are not voter suppression - they are just commonsense steps to ensure people don't vote if they are ineligible, don't vote using false identities and don't vote more than once."

Kirk: "If you take away what a person owns, you control what that person can do."

Kirk: "I started a college campus-based nonprofit in June 2012 called Turning Point U.S.A. to target millennials in college. Our mission was to create a powerful conservative grassroots activist network on campuses and identify, educate, train and organize students to promote the principles of freedom, free markets and limited government."

Kirk: "It is extremely difficult to stand up for principles when many of your friends are automatically liberal or just do not care."