I'm an internationalist. I want to help others, not just kill terrorists.

Bipartisanship is not what is missing in Washington. Common sense is.

The people who get the ability to use force have to be watched carefully by civilians to make sure they don't use it excessively.

Out of regime change you get chaos. From the chaos you have seen repeatedly the rise of radical Islam. So we get this profession of, oh, my goodness, they want to do something about terrorism and yet they're the problem because they allow terrorism to arise out of that chaos.

To understand how Republicans lost the African American vote, we must first understand how we won the African American vote.

What I can say is, is that if you do a poll, and one of the worldwide polling companies did this, and they asked people in 50 countries, "Would you like to come to America," it's about 700 million would come next year. We would double our population.

What I say is, national defense is the most important thing we do in Washington, but there's still waste in the military budget.