Europeans are greater than they have been since any time since the end of the Cold War.

Subjecting prisoners to abuse leads to bad intelligence, because under torture a detainee will tell his interrogator anything to make the pain stop. Second, mistreatment of our prisoners endangers U.S. troops who might be captured by the enemy – if not in this war, then in the next. And third, prisoner abuses exact on us a terrible toll in the war of ideas, because inevitably these abuses become public.

I have the greatest appreciation for Governor [Sarah] Palin and her family. There's great joy to know them.

Our political differences, now matter how sharply they are debated, are really quite narrow in comparison to the remarkably durable national consensus on our founding convictions.

I don't know a politician who enjoys fundraising. The system is such that the American people have lost faith.

We can't disrupt polling places anymore, ... It doesn't serve any purpose. It just makes people mad.

I will not leave the Republican Party, ... The Republican Party is my home.