John McCain famously has been incredibly loyal to Sarah Palin ever since he picked her as his running mate.

I'm not a screamer. I'm confrontational, but I don't think that translates into anger.

That`s how you end up with a guy like Dan Fried, overseeing the U.S. sanctions against Russia for Russia did in Ukraine and Crimea.Russia hates those sanctions more than they love life. They hate those sanctions. So, of course, you need your toughest and most experienced guy running those sanctions.

When Conservatives crusade against government while they are trying to be appointed to head the government, I think that's weird!

I'd rather have none at all than a grain too much.

I don't feel there's anything about my experience of being gay that gives me more insight into "don't ask, don't tell," for example, than anybody else.

I think that presidents don't give up power that has accrued to them by the precedent of previous presidents. Even when they say they would like to, I think once they get there they don't give it up.