I am by nature a worried optimist.

Whatever the job you are asked to do at whatever level, do a good job because your reputation is your resume.

We went to the same college so I know [Hillary Clinton's] study habits, but when she was first lady of Arkansas, she did a lot of things already for children, and she was head of the Children's Defense Fund, and that's how I first heard her or met her, she was very very involved in really a very important social program to do something about children and women and education.

What's the point of having this superb military you're always talking about if we can't use it?

I am such a political person.

To put it mildly, the world is a mess.

There are an awful lot of things going on that need understanding and explanation, but - to put it mildly - the world is a mess.