I'm just trying to keep things normal around the house, because there's no reason why things shouldn't be normal.

I don’t e-mail, I’ve never felt the particular need to e-mail.

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?

The world is on fire.

Thank God for the Saudis and Prince Bandar, and for our Qatari friends.

We need not risk our national honor to prevail in this or any war.

Torture gives you reliable and unreliable information. That's the reason why most people in the world don't do it. So this idea that you have to torture people in order to protect national security is a false argument, and I reject it.