Now [after election] where it goes into violence, I have a zero tolerance for riots.

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.

Life needs penalties and rewards for people. You can't control people with only penalties. You have to think how to create rewards.

You want to do tax reductions, you want to do permanent tax reduction, reductions in spending. You've got to go out and explain it to the people, get them on your side and have them become the levers that you need in congressional relations.

It wouldn't quite be fair to say September 11, like, made my career.

My father used to say to me, 'Whenever you get into a jam, whenever you get into a crisis or an emergency, become the calmest person in the room and you'll be able to figure your way out of it.'

Did business with Qatar, a US ally which protects al-Qaeda.