Actually we're very lucky John McCain is not in charge because I think we would be in perpetual war.

My great grandfather, like many, came to this country in search of the American Dream.

I just can't vote to go to war unless I think there's a real clear-cut American purpose in the war, that we're going to win and that we're not going fight for stalemate.

I went to my first national convention in 1976, when my family supported [Ronald] Reagan over [Gerald] Ford, so we've always been Republicans, but we've always wanted the Republican Party to be the party of fiscally conservative, limited-government types. And I think, sometimes, we haven't done that as well.

We must protect ourselves from jihadis without losing ourselves.

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.

I think if we ban certain religions, if we censor the Internet, I think that at that point the terrorists will have won.