It's a phony issue. To pretend the death penalty is going to end crime in the United States is to fool people, to promote public ignorance.

This guy [Donald Trump] is not going to get pushed around.

I was an assistant U.S. attorney. I was the associate attorney general of the United States, third-ranking official under Ronald Reagan.

My major focus is national security because that's really what the president runs.

I think people are exaggerating the fears of a Donald Trump presidency because they're coming off a campaign where they're very disappointed.

We are technologically ahead of Russia and China. We can develop a nuclear shield for the United States, for Poland, and for the Czech Republic. Russia is deadly frightened of that. They have been trying to get us to give that up for 20 years since [Ronald] Reagan.

A leader must not let critics set the agenda.