I do not support a civil war. I don't want to be policeman of the world. But we can't back off of this.

I'm not a big guy that believes that you gain energy from demonizing other people. I think you gain energy from giving people hope.

This is not about Republican or Democrat. It is about our children, it's about our families, it is about our country, and frankly, ladies and gentlemen, it is about the world. We've got to leave here and march, and make sure Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan are president and vice president of the United States.

I mean, it would be very easy to make an inflammatory statement on what we ought to do on cyber. I don't think that that's productive. But to allow the Russian activity to go unresponded to is not acceptable.

Affirmative action has a negative effect on our society when it means counting us like so many beans and dividing us into separate piles.

(God) wants America to succeed. And he wants America to lead.

Libya was a terrible mistake. You know, frankly, that's something that people ought to be thinking about in regard to Hillary [Clinton]. You know, they talk about Benghazi, which is very legitimate. Of course it is. But we should never have deposed [Muamar] Gaddafi. That was a terrible mistake.