I've heard of many tragic cases of walking, talking normal children who wound up with profound mental disorders after vaccines.

What I don't like from the president's administration is this sort of, 'I'll put my boot heel on the throat of BP.' I think that sounds really un-American in his criticism of business. And I think it's part of this sort of blame-game society in the sense that it's always got to be someone's fault instead of the fact that sometimes accidents happen.

Everybody is looking for an election where they can do something and participate.

How did the party that elected the first black U.S. senator, the party that elected the first 20 African-American congressmen, how did that party become a party that now loses 95 percent of the black vote?

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

What gets lost is that the Republican Party has always been the party of civil rights and voting rights.

I think we can all agree [Bashar] Assad is a bad and evil actor, but I'm not so sure that we want the Islamic rebels to be in charge of Syria either.