When there are elections, people tend to vote for peace. They don't vote for war. So Americans want to promote those principles around the world.

Freedom requires religion in society, not in individuals.

I don't like vampires personally. I don't know any.

Syria is Iran's only ally in the Arab world. It's their route to the sea. It's the route for them to arm Hezbollah in Lebanon, which threatens, of course, our ally, Israel.

If Israel is attacked, America has their back, not just diplomatically, not just culturally, but militarily.

My strategy is pretty straightforward, which is to go after the bad guys, to make sure we do our very best to interrupt them, to - to kill them, to take them out of the picture. But my strategy is broader than that. That's - that's important, of course. But the key that we're going to have to pursue is a - is a pathway to get the Muslim world to be able to reject extremism on its own.

I don't like to have the federal government start pushing its weight deeper and deeper into our schools. Let the states and localities do that.