Improve human intelligence to get Osama bin Laden.

When you have airplanes with precision weapons, striking hospitals in Aleppo and slaughtering innocent men, women and children, you're committing a war crime. So we need more sanctions against Russia. We should not relax them.

If we do nothing, we are handing our children a ticking time bomb that will require they pay ever greater payroll taxes just as they are beginning their careers, starting their own families and staking their claim to the American Dream.

I put the Vietnam War behind me a long time ago, and what I wanted to (do) among other things was help veterans also be able to come all the way home as some of our veterans have not been able to do. But I harbor no anger nor rancor. I'm a better man for my experience, and I'm grateful for having the opportunity of serving.

I've seen enough killing in my life. I know how precious human life is and I don't need a lecture from you.

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

I can tell you that I think America is safer today than it was on 9/11. But that doesn't mean that we don't have a long way to go.