The U.S. affirms freedom of speech.[Vladimir] Putin is no friend of freedom of speech.

I didn't go to Harvard because I thought they had good academics. I went because they had crappy enough sports so they'd let me play.

We obviously have to honor the commitments that have been made to the people who are already retired or near the retirement age. But we need to tell the truth about the fact that when we set the retirement age at age 65 in America, life expectancy was only 62.

[Vladimir] Putin is an enemy of the free press. The U.S. celebrates free press.

I think I'm one of five people in the Senate who's never been a politician before. And now that I am a politician, what I find weird about it is that I respect myself less.

D.C. is known as Hollywood for ugly people.

While Admiral Neffenger is an impressive man, it is naive and dangerous to pretend installing one director can heal what ails TSA, the Department of Homeland Security needs to admit that it has a crisis of bureaucratic complacency - lacking an overarching vision and coherent measures of success and failure.