CBS "Face the Nation" interviews during 2015: on Principles & Values

Marco Rubio: FactCheck: Senate attendance comparable to other candidates

• Rubio has missed 34% of his votes in the Senate this year.
• Bob Graham (D-FL) missed 32% of votes in 2003. That rate spiked to more than 70% as the race heated up.
• John Kerry's (D-MA) absentee rate was even higher--64% in 2003, and close to 90% after he had secured the nomination.
• Then-Sen. Obama (D-IL) missed 26% of his votes in 2007 and 64% in 2008, and skipped almost all votes directly leading up to the election.

Bernie Sanders: Abortion & gay marriage secondary to addressing inequality

SANDERS: Well, look, I am pro-choice. I am strongly in favor of gay marriage. And I know that, at Liberty University, people there have honest disagreements with me on that issue. But what I said, look, at a time when we have a grotesque level of income and wealth inequality, when almost all of the new income and wealth in this country is going to the top 1 percent, when we have the highest rate of childhood poverty of any major country on Earth, can we not get together and talk about creating an economy that works for all of us, and not just millionaires and billionaires?

Rand Paul: Conservative on spending; libertarian-ish on other issues

PAUL: Well, you add that to the fact I am also one of the most conservative members of the Senate, in the sense that I vote against spending, I vote against unbalanced budgets, I'm a proponent of lower taxes. So all of those are right within the mainstream of the party. But I do have some additional things--I call them sometimes the libertarian-ish kind of issues--of believing in privacy, believing in criminal justice, that everyone should be treated fairly under the law, no matter the color of your skin. We still have a large problem in our country that, if you are black, you are not always being treated fairly under the law. And I want to fix that.