Why am I running for president? Well, my wife, Cindy, says it is because I sustainedseveral severe blows to the head in prison camp.

Bashar Assad is a major cause of the refugees which are now flooding Europe and causing such consternation in the United States.

I'm as frustrated with the French, I think, as anyone, but look, there's going to be other challenges and there are going to be other issues. As long as there's a war on terrorism going on, we're all going to have to work together.

Russia has now become a nation fueled by petro-dollars that is basically a KGB apparatchik-run government.

You can disagree with someone on issues, but you should never get personal. Joe Biden has never gotten personal, to my knowledge, with a fellow senator.

I know the veterans. I know them well. And I know that they know that I'll take care of them. And I've been proud of their support and their recognition of my service to the veterans.

In 2003, I warned of a 'creeping coup' in Russia against the forces of democracy and market capitalism in Russia.