On all vital measures, measures necessary to protect you, the Democrats in Washington follow a simple philosophy: Just say no.

I'm also not very analytical. You know I don't spend a lot of time thinking about myself, about why I do things.

We've got a cultural issue in America. We've got to change the whole way the issue is looked at. That's the mission. Some in the political process don't have enough patience for that, and I probably don't either.

I will never relent in defending America - whatever it takes.

You can imagine these radicals getting a hold of a country where they're able to pull oil off the market to run the price of oil up to extract concession.

American foreign policy must be more than the management of crisis. It must have a great and guiding goal: to turn this time of American influence into generations of democratic peace.

we're too great a nation to allow the evil-doers to affect our soul and our spirit.