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

Waterboarding ok if national security were at stake.

If we have more people on the receiving end of government - more people as the middle class becomes sucked in more and more to these entitlement programs, for example - then we're going to be in a place where it's going to be hard to go back. It's going to be hard to go back again. It's going to be hard to take away stuff. It's not impossible.

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

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

Hopefully, we can build bridges, but we also have to draw lines.

Life begins at conception, but allow early abortions.