Reagan proved that deficits don't matter.

His regime has had high-level contacts with al Qaeda going back a decade and has provided training to al Qaeda terrorists.

To bring the worst of the worst terrorists inside the United States would be cause for great danger and regret in the years to come. It is recklessness cloaked in righteousness, and would make the American people less safe.

It used to be you needed to have a very large sophisticated state before you could even have a nuclear weapon... Now the technology is widespread enough. It doesn't take very many people to be able to cobble together a devastating attack, and all it takes is one.

I don’t think that [the war in Iraq] damaged our reputation around the world.

I'm up in the Senate most Tuesdays when they're in session.

I think there’s no question but what the tail end of the Bush administration, Bush-Cheney administration, that we took steps specifically geared to try and free up the financial sector.