In terms of my own behavior and activity, the funny thing about regrets and saying "I'm sorry," is that there's so much I would do differently and want to do differently moving forward.

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

My dad was a [Theodor] Roosevelt Democrat.

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.

I'm different in the sense that every minute of every day, I change. I'm thinking. But the basic principles that have powered me forward are still there. They're not different.

I suffer from a genetic flaw, which is that my mother was a hopeless Pollyanna.

Guilty as hell. Free as a bird. America is a great country.