I think that we ought to be a tolerant nation. I think we ought to be tolerant people. But we shouldn't set up special categories for anybody. And I'm for the rights of everybody, including gays, but not any special rights.

But obviously, we can't afford to make some bad long-term decisions with regard to basic commitments our country has - trade those away for some short-term assistance that may or may not be there a month from now.

Play hardball with Musharraf, but don't cut off US aid.

For a long time in American history, people didn't even come up before the Senate. They didn't come before the Judiciary Committee, and up until about 1923, something like that.

China is one of the world's greatest proliferators of weapons of mass destruction to these rogue nations

Russians don't take a dump, son, without a plan.

We are always just one successful terrorist attack away from a nuclear disaster.