If we were building our navy, rather than reducing our navy to pre-World War I levels, China would not be thinking about increasing its navy to take over the South China Sea.

If you read history, right, if you read [Mikhail] Gorbachev's memoirs, Gorbachev memoirs said the key thing in winning the Cold War was our insistence on nuclear defense, because they knew they couldn't match us.

We had no domestic attacks under Bush.

When I said the city would be stronger, I didn't know that. I just hoped it. There are parts of you that say, 'Maybe we're not going to get through this.' You don't listen to them.

My advice would be that once [Donald Trump] enters office, there should be a separation, a blind trust or some kind of blind trust.

It's about time law enforcement got as organized as organized crime.

I've campaigned many, many times together with Senator McCain. He's campaigned for me; I've campaigned for him, good friend.