You don`t have to be foreign policy expert to succeed as president, but you have to have ice water for blood.

This is why mustard gas is such a danger or any weapon of mass destruction is such a dangerous thing because it - it's victims become everyone in the end.

A genuine approach to budget cutting - knowing exactly what you're cutting and why, and with what real-life consequences - is beyond my competence, and probably beyond the competence of any politician in America.

I don't know if it's a male thing, but I've always been interested in how people respond to the stresses and dangers of war, how they react under fire. In the extremity of war, character is revealed.

What goes on in a person's head, what impels them to a political choice, it's a pretty complicated question.

Character is destiny, and politicians usually get the scandals they deserve, with a sense of inevitability about them.

When you go to Washington and get off at Union Station, as I sometimes do, and see the Capitol building, I get this hopeless feeling that comes over me.