Todd Young

I'm a libertarian-conservative. I believe the state should focus on defending lives, rights, and property instead of depriving its citizens of their God-given liberties.

Typically, discussions of the safety net boil down to one side wanting to spend more in the name of compassion, and the other side wanting to spend less in the name of fiscal restraint. In both cases, money serves as a proxy for moral responsibility.

Safety-net programs must make efficient use of taxpayer resources and harness the capabilities of recipients by helping them move back into the workforce.

We may not realize it, but a crucial step in building a healthy economy is helping people move from welfare to work.

Freedom requires us to view people as wanting the opportunity to earn their success.

We need to make sure that joblessness never pays more than employment.

John McCain and Lindsay Graham have a habit of communicating with great passion and regularity. I have great respect for both individuals, but their style is not everyone's style.

It is both wrong and short-sighted to believe that we can better protect our national security interests by ignoring or sidelining human rights.

Social-impact partnerships address our moral responsibilities to ensure that social programs actually improve recipients' lives, and to do so in a fiscally prudent manner.

The vast majority of my job is, and should be done, in the state of Indiana.

Our nation must come together as only Americans can.

In the House, you can predictably spend roughly four to seven days back home with family.

I go to Washington, D.C., to work and come home at every opportunity.

People are so frustrated by electing people to represent them in Washington, D.C., and having them immediately forget about the Hoosiers they represent.

Establishment, career politicians are about saying one thing and doing another.

I will never, ever balance a budget on the backs of our seniors.

I think it's essential that we do more than talk about austerity measures and cutting.

We should not just talk about conservative principles, but we should actually advance them.

If we're going to make sure that we get our legislation right... we need to actually be spending time with Hoosiers.

In each and every election, it's your rights, it's your freedoms, it's your interests that are on the ballot.

I spend roughly two out of every three nights at my house in Indiana.

If you look in a dictionary, the word 'Indianan' may appear. But the first task, the litmus test as to whether or not someone really is from Indiana or has spent any kind of considerable time in Indiana, is whether or not they use the word 'Indianan,' because no one in Indiana ever uses that term. We refer to ourselves as Hoosiers.

I actually understand what a Marine on the ground goes through. I've seen generals and admirals struggle with different situations.

The issue most on Hoosiers' minds is job creation, job retention, and household income.

When countries with the worst possible human rights records sit on the UNHRC, seek to deflect attention from their own egregious human rights abuses and attempt to pass judgment on Israel - a country with a vibrant liberal democracy - the credibility of the UNHRC is further undermined, and the United States must not be silent.

U.S. national security interests are best served when the United Nations effectively fulfills this core purpose.

Promoting and protecting human rights internationally is not just a matter of principle or morality - doing so also serves our national security interests.

My wife Jenny and I have four young children of our own.