I mean, if somebody said to me, junior year of college, you can go anywhere, your old man's paying for it, I'd have been gone in a flash. But I had to work. Every summer my mother would say, 'Get that job and hold on to it until August 30.'

The real difference between relationship politics and transactional politics is loyalty. [Barack] Obama doesn't seem to expect it.

I'm so glad we had that storm last week.

We've got to recognize that when we march into Iraq, we're setting up the card tables in front of every university in the Arab world, the Islamic world, to recruit for al-Qaida.

When I hear Rand Paul, who is much younger, saying wars are verkakte, I agree with him.

I`m impressed that people out there in Pennsylvania, deer hunter country, have had it with these stupid wars, that they don`t go along with the neocon theology, they don`t go along with the big money people or the evangelicals that always seem to want to fight, especially in the Middle East.

I'm center left, but I think - most things, left on some, center on some, right on very few.