What I'd do is not have USAID and the National Endowment for Democracy working with U.S. taxpayers' money to knock off an elected government in Ukraine, which is what they did. I wouldn't try to force the people of Ukraine into a deal with NATO against their interest or into a deal with the European Union, which is against their economic interest.

Everyone should have health insurance? I say everyone should have health care. I'm not selling insurance.

When you have real power you don't threaten. People know what your capabilities are.

It is fear which leads us to war, ... It is fear which leads us to believe that we must kill or be killed. Fear which leads us to attack those who have not attacked us. Fear which leads us to ring our nation in the very heavens with weapons of mass destruction.

War can be so impersonal yet when we put a name, a face, a place and match it to families, then war is not impersonal.

Peace is a civil right which makes other human rights possible. Peace is a precondition for our existence. Peace permits our continued existence.

We are on the path toward becoming the Sparta of the 21st century, armed to the teeth and without the capacity to care for our own people.