I'm not apologetic with respect to the policies of the Bush administration. I think we basically got it right.

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

I'm more concerned with bad guys who got out and released than I am with a few that in fact were innocent.

I worship the ground Paul Ryan walks on.

I'm absolutely convinced that the threat we face now, the idea of a terrorist in the middle of one of our cities with a nuclear weapon, is very real and that we have to use extraordinary measures to deal with it.

I do find that the mainstream media oftentimes is what I would consider off base or has a bias.

I think we need a very, very serious effort, primarily through tax policy to provide incentives and encouragement for people to save and invest and expand their businesses and to create more jobs. The kind of thing we did in the early Reagan years, 30 years ago. I think that's essential.