No officer should be allowed to behave as if they are above the law, just because they are responsible for upholding the law.

Personally, I don't pick books for how people think about me. I read books so I can learn.

And the last thing that I want to see us do is ask more and more of our troops [in Afghanistan ] without guaranteeing that we're providing more and more of what's necessary to make the mission successful.

The moment somebody's a president and you call him "Mr. President," (the person represents) our culture, our history, our sense as our nation.

We're bending the law as far as we can to ban an entirely new class of guns.

Things happened there that I don't think are the finest hours for anybody, whether it was a journalist, the legal system or, in that case of the political system, who would say that was an example of when Washington worked best.

And it's time as a country that we have an assault weapon ban.