Al Qaeda has been placed on the run, but not destroyed.

As long as I sit at Henry Clay's desk, I will remember his lifelong desire to forge agreement, but I will also keep close to my heart the principled stand of his cousin, Cassius Clay, who refused to forsake the life of any human, simply to find agreement.

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

I'm the leading voice in America for not arming the allies of ISIS.

I would have handled it differently than the mayor of Baltimore, that's for sure. I think it's a mistake to say, hey, guys, you can pillage the city for a while and we'll let that go, and we'll be sort of standing back. I think it's also important to know some of the underlying causes of why there's unease in our country.

You can tell a person's religion 85 percent of the time from their phone records.

I think there's a racial outcome to a lot of what goes in America, but I don't think race is always the reason.