The world spends two trillion dollars a year on military, and of that two trillion the United States spends one trillion. We have a bigger military than the rest of the world put together. We have 150 foreign military bases.

The nice thing about being detained in Canada is it's like being in a Days Inn; it's very clean and very nice.

I think I am a radical. I have never deviated from that. By radical, I mean someone trying to go to the root of things.

Your kids require you most of all to love them for who they are, not to spend your whole time trying to correct them.

One-hundred facts about Vietnam and we studied the fact sheet and got in to these arguments and it was fantastic, and I remember one moment when we heard two students saying don't talk to those guys, meaning my brother and me. They've just memorized that stupid fact sheet. And we thought, gosh do we sound that good? It didn't seem possible. But that was my introduction to politics.

You can be disappointed but only if you thought [Barack Obama] was something that he said he wasn't!

Certainly my parents were Dr. [Benjamin] Spock-driven parents. So they were tolerant.