I don't know how you defeat an insurgency unless you have some handle on the number of people that you are facing.

They're all tied together: taxes, Medicare, Social Security, and the debt. We've got to have a setting of priorities, and looking at it - at each of them as disconnected, I think, doesn't properly address these major challenges.

Iraq is now the central front in the war against al-Qaeda.

Why is Chelsea Clinton so ugly? Because her father is Janet Reno.

Right now there’s kind of a generational change. Young Americans do not trust this government. Without trusting government you can't do a lot of things.

But we have a war of ideals and ideas, and that is to sell democracy.

I spent several years in a north Vietnamese prison camp in the dark, fed with scraps. Do you think I want to do that all over again as vice president of the United States?