The global importance of the Middle East is that it keeps the Far East and the Near East from encroaching on each other.

Looking back, I should have pursued philosophy and economics and things of that sort in college more, but I didn't.

I didn't pay a lot of attention as I should have in college.

Hawaii is a unique state. It is a small state. It is a state that is by itself. It is a-it is different than the other 49 states. Well, all states are different, but it's got a particularly unique situation.

We do, in former chairman Lee Atwater's words, offer the party as a big tent, and therefore that message has to be clear. How we do that within the platform, the preamble to the platform or whatnot, that remains to be seen. But that message will have to be articulated with great clarity.

I'd like to get into the National Guard.

The cause of the riots were the rioters