The Federalist Society has made important contributions to the nation's understanding of our constitutional heritage.

I want to avoid personal attacks, ... I promise not to make fun of your singing.

We need, from time to time, to use military force or all of the resources at our command in order to defend the nation and defend our friends. Sometimes, that requires us to take actions that generate controversy. I think there are probably some who actually believe, if we just go talk nice to these folks, everything is going to be OK. I don't think the world works that way.

I worship the ground Paul Ryan walks on.

In terms of asking questions, I plead guilty. I ask a hell of a lot of questions. That's my job.

You know, I've got experiences going back to the wage price controls in the Nixon administration where, in effect, we had what I think was a terrible mistake, in that case a Republican administration, where moved in and tried to control the wages, prices and profits of every enterprise in America. It was a huge mistake.

In his years in Washington, Senator Kerry has been one vote of a hundred in the United States Senate - and fortunately on matters of national security, he was very often in the minority.