This Administration [of Barack Obama] favors a pluralistic world and respects cultural differences, so it's wrong for the West and American elitists to judge how women are treated under Sharia. I'm going too long on all this, but I choke up on the President's legacy of reaching out to the Muslim world. It's an emotional thing.

In the good old days when I was a senator, I was my own man.

Why do people like America? They say, well, you have the largest military in the world. Because you have more people, et cetera. They like America for what we stand for. And one of the things, and I feel proud to be, what this president's for, the last seven years, is we have once again aligned our basic fundamental beliefs and principles with our conduct. And it matters. It matters in terms of our security. It matters in terms of our ability to influence the world. It matters in our ability to succeed.

It is the most vicious of all crimes - to be abused by someone you had a relationship with! Because then you blame yourself.

Don't listen to the cynics. They were wrong about my generation and they were wrong about yours.

The Iraqis have become invested in their nationhood.

Osama bin Laden is dead, and General Motors is alive.