There's a lot of money to pay for this ... the oil revenues of that country could bring between $50 and $100 billion over the course of the next two or three years...We're dealing with a country that can really finance its own reconstruction, and relatively soon.

We did not go to war in Afghanistan or in Iraq to, quote, 'impose democracy.' We went to war in both places because we saw those regimes as a threat to the United States.

History is just littered with problems that were solved that were supposed to be impossible.

People seem to forget that Saddam was the only leader in the world who praised the attacks of 9/11 as a good thing.

The American people are pretty impressive in their ability to keep after something if they think it is doable.

Every math curriculum in the world is based on the idea of hand-calculating, and most of what you're teaching is how to calculate. And I think the resistance to this is very variable.

I certainly think it's important to speak up and say how unacceptable Donald Trump is. I'm always more than willing to do that.