We have fewer troops in Afghanistan than we had law enforcement [officers] at the Olympics in Salt Lake City.

Freedom means the right of people to assemble, organize, and debate openly.

We have to be cognizant of the fact that they've had foreign fighters coming to volunteer for them, foreign money, foreign weapons, so we have to make this the top priority.

You know, the vibrancy of the black church, the black businesses that employ so many people, the opportunities that so many families are working to provide for their kids. There's a lot that we should be proud of and we should be supporting and lifting up.

There hasn't been anybody whose life has been picked apart and distorted as much as mine.

I hope we will come together as a nation and do whatever it takes to keep guns away from people who have no business with them.

When it comes to foreign policy, it is important to remember that politics stops at the water's edge.