I think those who have wanted regime [of Bashar Assad] change have made a mistake.

You wonder why your government's completely broken? We lurch from deadline to deadline, and it's on purpose really. We do deadline to deadline because ... 'we've got to go. It's spring break, we're going to be late for spring break, and we've got to go, so we've got to finish this up before we go.'

The First Amendment says keep government out of religion. It doesn't say keep religion out of government.

The more we can have peaceful trade both with Russia, with China, and with others, you know, there's a self interest in this for everyone.

In our state, I'm really proud of the fact that the ones who overturned Jim Crow in Kentucky were Republicans fighting against an entirely unified Democrat Party. So I am proud to be Republican. I can't imagine being anything else.

Toppling secular dictators in the Middle East has only led to chaos and the rise of radical Islam.

2007 was a long time ago, and events do change over long periods of time.