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

How could any responsible leader have ignored the Iraqi threat? If we had not acted, Saddam Hussein and his sons would still be in power.

Cheney, Cheney, you can't hide, we charge you with genocide.

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

The United States needs to be not so much loved as it needs to be respected. Sometimes, that requires us to take actions that generate controversy. I'm not at all sure that that's what the Obama administration believes.

I got to be White House chief of staff, ten years of congressman, secretary of defense, vice-president. If you're a political junkie like I obviously am - that was - every one of those was just a tremendous experience. I'm very comfortable with what I did and why I did it and how I did it. And I'll let others judge whether they liked it or not.

Reagan proved that deficits don't matter.