The Democratic Party likes to remind people that the Russian force around that was very strong, remarkably strong.

The single best thing about coming out of the closet is that nobody can insult you by telling you what you've just told them.

We are starting to see what may be signs of continuing [Russian] influence in our country. Not just during the campaign but during the [Donald Trump] administration, basically signs of what could be a continuing operation. And those two things together are worth paying attention to.

If you're working on better conditions for prisoners, if you make that a popular issue and you invite mainstream media to weigh in on that subject, you're going to end up with a much more regressive public-policy environment than if you approach it in a quieter way. It's not because the public is stupid, it's just that people with only a cursory interest in something are going to have a knee-jerk reaction to it. That's impossible to explain in a cable-news media... it doesn't make sense.

I am too old to know how to put a naked photograph of myself on the Internet.

If you want to make the government take a religious side, then make the case, it should be Christian republic.

Abstinence-only education - the best STD (Sexually Transmitted Disease) and pregnancy delivery system that politicians have ever devised.