As you know, we don't have relationships with Iran. I mean, that's - ever since the late '70s, we have no contacts with them, and we've totally sanctioned them. In other words, there's no sanctions - you can't - we're out of sanctions.

No matter what your politics is, we ought to be thanking people for volunteering.

I think it's very important for the American president to mean what he says. That's why I understand that the enemy could misread what I say. That's why I try to be as clearly as I can.

It is human choices that move events.

It is incredibly presumptive for somebody who has not yet earned his party's nomination to start speculating about vice presidents.

I feel a special kinship with our military personnel, veterans, and their families. After all, two of my decisions sent them into harm's way.

America must not ignore the threat gathering against us. Facing clear evidence of peril, we cannot wait for the final proof, the smoking gun that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud.