I don't want to claim that God is on our side. As Abraham Lincoln told us, I want to pray humbly that we are on God's side.

There is a much cheaper way, less complicated way to bring Iraq and Saddam Hussein to its knees: it is simply to send the Bush economic team over there and let them run the country.

We can't change minds without knowing what's in them.

People talk about [Bashar] Assad running Syria. He doesn't control his own country. He's down to about 20, 25 percent of the country. What is this fiction that he is somehow the only person who can save Syria? There's - with Assad there, there is no Syria. So that's what the Iranians and the Russians need to really begin to focus in on.

America has not led but fled on the issue of global warming.

We cannot continue to see the Middle East in the context of 9/11. We must see it in the context of 2011.

An old American patriot described today’s situation very well. As America fought for its independence, Benjamin Franklin said, “we must all hang together, or assuredly, we shall all hang separately.”