I can't think of a time when we've had a region emerge as suddenly to become as strategically significant as the Caspian.

Don Rumsfeld is the finest secretary of defense the nation has ever had.

You know, in this business, you don't have any control over what the press says and how they portray things. And that's their prerogative. But I think anybody who looks at it objectively has trouble making the case that somehow this is a bad economy.

I think things have gotten so bad inside Iraq, from the standpoint of the Iraqi people, my belief is we will, in fact, be greeted as liberators.

The good Lord didn't see fit to put oil and gas only where there are democratic regimes friendly to the United States.

After 9/11 we were prepared to use military force. We were prepared to go after not only the terrorists, but those who sponsor terror and provide sanctuary and safe harbor for them. We were prepared to use our intelligence assets the way we would against an enemy that threatened the United States itself, to put in place, for example, things like the Terror Surveillance Program and to have a robust interrogation program on detainees. Those are the acts you take when you feel you're at war and that the very existence of the nation is threatened.

I don't pay a lot of attention, frankly, to what Barack Obama says.