I think it's critical that we return national security issues to the center of the overall political debate in America.

I think the future of China's unknown, I don't know what direction it's going to go in. It could go in the right direction, it could. It could go in a very bad direction, too.

Although we refer to the International Criminal Court, the real problem is the prosecutor, because it's the prosecutor who decides who to investigate and what cases to bring. This court fundamentally embodied a potential for abuse of governmental power that I felt was inconsistent with being a free person - and [it was] inconsistent for a free country like the United States to subscribe to it.

The only thing that will stop Iran from getting nuclear weapons is regime change in Tehran.

The Republican Party is the party of national security. There's hardly a national security wing of the Democratic Party anymore. So if we turn away from it, that'll be a big problem.

Texas is a big state. It's a major force in the Republican Party.

We need a strong and effective State Department. We can't conduct American affairs in the world without it.