Every foreign policy of every major nation involves reason, common sense, carrots and sticks. You can't have all carrots and no sticks.

Sometimes you have to, as I say, build bridges where you can - but draw lines where you must.

Twelve million illegal immigrants later, we are now living in a nation that is beset by people who are suicidal maniacs and want to kill countless innocent men, women and children around the world.

For example, lead paint in old houses can be a greater threat to children's health than lead that may be under some industrial site where there are no children

The problem is that agencies sometimes lose sight of common sense as they create regulations.

So if you look back over the long history of China, they've never tried to take over the world, but they've been quite aggressive in their own neighborhood... in carrying out their own purposes and interests in their sphere of the world

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