Washington is a Hollywood for ugly people. Hollywood is a Washington for the simpleminded.

I have said many times in the past I don't choose to be vice president, either Republican, Democrat, Libertarian or vegetarian.

I say to our enemies: We are coming. God may have mercy on you, but we won't

People want the truth, even if they disagree.

We should be I hope finally realizing what Vladimir Putin is. He's an old colonel, KGB, apparatchik, and he dreams of the restoration of the Russian empire.

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

The way you have bipartisan negotiations, you sit down across the table, as we did with Ted Kennedy, as I've done with many other members, and you say, 'OK, here's what I want, here's what you want. We'll adhere to your principles, but we'll make concessions.'