At the risk of appearing predictable, the Bible was and remains the biggest influence on my thinking. I was raised reading it, memorizing passages from it and being guided by it. I still find it a source of wisdom, comfort and encouragement.

I know Donald's [Trump] very praiseworthy of Vladimir Putin, but Putin is playing a really tough, long game here. And one of the things he's done is to let loose cyber attackers to hack into government files, to hack into personal files, hack into the Democratic National Committee. And we recently have learned that, you know, that this is one of their preferred methods of trying to wreak havoc and collect information.

I think it's time to send a clear message to what has become the most profitable sector in the entire economy [the oil industry], that they are being watched.

I believe that it is imperative that we learn from the mistakes.

We have a lot of issues with corporate power that have to be addressed. My plan takes us further and it would do the job.

A vote in 2002 is not a plan to defeat ISIS.

I think we've got to understand the complexity of the world that we are facing and no place is more so than in the Middle East.