When my hair was shorter, I used to get it done every couple of days... but I got tired of that.

We need American Muslims to be part of our eyes and ears on our front lines.

Women are always being tested ... but ultimately, each of us has to define who we are individually and then do the very best job we can to grow into it.

The last time I actually drove a car myself was 1996.

I think that, given the threat that ISIS poses to the region and beyond, as we have sadly seen in our own country, it is important to keep the Iraqi army on a path where they can actually take back territory, to work with the Sunni tribes in Anbar province and elsewhere so that their fighters can be also deployed, to work with the Kurds to provide them the support, but they're doing the fighting. We're doing the support and enabling.

I think a marriage is as a marriage has always been, between a man and a woman.

I think if you come from where I came from and where I have always been, I've always been reaching out and whether it's talking with our neighbors or going shopping or standing, talking to people in these bookstores and hearing what's on their minds, or even the work I did for eight years as a senator to bring new jobs to New York and stand up for the people I represented.