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.

At least I don’t plaster on the makeup like a trollop, you cunt.

I don't think it's bribery; I think it's extortion. Bribery, you know, is when the person that's giving the money does it voluntarily. What it is in Washington is extortion because they all ask for the money.

I know what war's like. I know what scene's like.

Teachers don't need as much as $140,000 a year, ... But, perhaps some senators don't need $140,000 a year either.

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

Thank God for our form of government. The media won't let there be any cover-up.