I'm not sure if President Obama is an ideologue or a pragmatist. I am hoping and praying he's a pragmatist.

You can be a patriotic American and be a critic, but then you're not expressing that kind of love that we're used to from a president.

A leader must not let critics set the agenda.

Thank God we're safe. What I anticipated on Sept. 11 was that we would be attacked many times between then and now, and we haven't been.

I support security at the borders. I think security is enormously important in the post-September 11th period. I think we have to know who's coming into this country. We have to be able to identify them; we have to be able to figure out who they are.

The largest tax reduction in American history, one page tax form, reducing government spending. Those are all the keys to economic progress.

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.