Now that I'm not running, I can appear on Fox. Let the cabinet members do the low-ratings shows on MSNBC.

We [US government] have no fundamental disagreement with the Saudis - I mean, excuse me, with the Iraqis any more than we do with the Arab League, which we happen to support the position they're taking.

The idea that you know more than the intelligence community knows, it's a little like saying, I know more about physics than my professor.

Mark my words.It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy. The world is looking. We're about to elect a brilliant 47-year-old senator president of the United States of America. Remember I said it standing here if you don't remember anything else I said. Watch, we're gonna have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy.

The Middle East is hopeful. There's hope there.

Millionaires are just as patriotic as poor people. The very wealthy are just as noble and patriotic as the middle class. But nothing has been asked of them in this horrendous recession. And it's time we just ask.

Well, I was 29 years old when I came to the United States Senate, and I have learned a lot.