I don't make promises, by and large, that I can't keep.

Politics can not only be drudgery and Captain Queeg with the balls in his hands.

A president of the United States, again, has to bring people together, have a position. We need to be able to penetrate these people when they are involved in these plots and these plans. And we have to give the local authorities the ability to penetrate to disrupt. That's what we need to do.

Sometimes people just don't understand the way that I work in politics.

There is a difference between Iraq, where you have Sunni, Shia, and Kurds put together after the First World War by the Western powers. It doesn't work. It needs to break up into three parts.

People are beginning to understand my vision and my message because finally people are beginning to allow me to be heard.

If one of my daughters happened to be [gay], of course I would love them and I would accept them. That's what we're taught when we have strong faith.