I was concerned about a couple of steps that the Russian government took in the last several days. One was reducing the energy supplies to Czechoslovakia.

Bashar Assad is a major cause of the refugees which are now flooding Europe and causing such consternation in the United States.

Do we really want another politician in the White House America can't trust?

I have said for a long time that I thought the president would be best served if the attorney general resigned so I think it's the right thing to do.

The only way you approach politics and seek elective office is to move forward. For me to look back in anger or with any rancor would be a mistake.

He was a superb military officer but he was also an extraordinarily gifted politician. That he was an unusually open, honest and no-nonsense politician did not make him unsuited for the profession, only uncommon. In uniform and in politics Barry's purpose was always the defense of freedom. And nobody before or since managed the task more ably or more colorfully than Barry Goldwater.

Each Middle East country has their own unique kinds of challenges; but the fundamentals, the desire for democracy and freely elected governments is a common thread throughout.