You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that: it’s an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.

You never want a serious crisis to go to waste.

You may say I may be unfit to be mayor. But you can never say I'm an unfit mayor.

I still believe the Lewinsky investigation was way off from the focus of what Whitewater was, which turned out to be nothing at the end of the process. And I think that there were people who were determined as political opponents to not allow his presidency to succeed.

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

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.

We've been at war for many years in Afghanistan following 9/11. We know that we've got young men and women on the ground now. We've got our blood and treasure at stake there already.