I may not agree with everything, but our President, just like President [George W.] Bush did, is trying to do his best under difficult circumstances.

Arnold Rampersad is a really good person. A really good person. As a matter of fact, he came to Stanford when I was Provost.

My Fox guys, I love every single one of them.

It takes courage to set priorities because doing so is an admission that American policy cannot be all things to all people - or rather to all interest groups

[My favorite dish to cook] is fried chicken, and by the way I'm good at it, too. I make really good fried chicken.

For 60 years, my country, the United States, pursued stability at the expense of democracy in this region, here in the Middle East, and we achieved neither.

I've always said that I expected to grow up and get married like any nice southern girl, but the fact is you don't get married in the abstract. You find someone that you'd like to be married to.