I was a member of the Armed Services Committee for 18 years. I spent a big chunk of my life studying national security issues and our role in the world.

Frankly, we should publicly increase them [ anti-Russian sanctions ].

Do you think that I like to have to fight the leaders in my own party over this or that? Of course not. There's no joy in that. But John Kennedy may have said it best - sometimes my party asks too much.

At the end, the Saudis have agreed to put together a coalition inside of Syria to stabilize that country.

God created astrologers to make pollsters look accurate.

Republicans and Democrats spend so much time fighting and then they're all aghast, you know, and so it's just not the way we ought to be. The coarseness is not acceptable.

I don't accept that. I really don't care - I'm going to be like one of these deniers - I don't care what the polls say.