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.

Some in Washington say that you have to trade your liberty for security.

Any time someone tries to tell you that metadata is 'meaningless, don't worry, it's just who you call, it's just phone records, it's not a big deal' - realize we kill people based on metadata. So they must be pretty darn certain that they think they know something based on metadata.

John McCain is the guy that has advocated for war everywhere. He would bankrupt the nation.

I'm not accusing anybody of being [Hitler].

I've put pencil to paper... and I've said I would cut spending, and I've said exactly where. Each one of my budgets has taken a meat axe to foreign aid, because I think we ought to quit sending it to countries that hate us.

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