When I die, I don't want my demise to be used as a political rally, and that's what happened yesterday.

I'll tell you what. I've been in combat. I've seen it, I've been close to it... and if my unit is danger, and I've got a captured guy, and the guy knows where the enemy is, and I'm looking him in the eye, the guy better tell me. That's all I'm gonna tell you. The guy better tell me. If it's life or death, he's going first.

We had an eyeball-to-eyeball agreement at a restaurant before I came back that, if I came back, he would never talk to me that way again or I was simply saying no.

I don't care about the Constitution! The Constitution isn't here; you're here. Don't be a pinhead.

Oregon is outflanking California as the most left wing state in the union.

I like Barack Obama as a person and I think he is a sincere man. I think he and his wife conducted themselves magnificently in the White House. There's not a better role model for American kids to watch Barack and Michelle Obama, so all of that is off-the-chart positive.

There is little anyone can do with fanatics. Reasoning with them is a fool's errand. Avoiding them is mandatory.