The biggest threat we face is the possibility of terrorist groups like al Qaeda equipped with weapons of mass destruction, with nukes, bugs or gas. That was the threat after 9/11 and when we took down Saddam Hussein we eliminated Iraq as a potential source of that.

The days of looking the other way while despotic regimes trample human rights, rob their nations' wealth, and then excuse their failings by feeding their people a steady diet of anti-Western hatred are over.

I worship the ground Paul Ryan walks on.

I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about my faults.

I do not believe the President requires any additional authorization from the Congress before committing US forces to achieve our objectives in the Gulf.

We've gotten a long way on missile defense. We know how to do it. We know how to take down incoming warheads, but we need to do a lot more work in order to be - to deploy a system that'll defend the United States against those kinds of limited strikes that might be possible by a nuclear armed North Korea or Iran.

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