Energy is the key to prosperity, to security. And until we [in US] start tapping our domestic, conventional and alternative sources to energy, we're never going to get there.

To choose and be so adamant about this exact location just a block or two away from 9/11, again is that knife, it feels like.

I say to the Occupy protesters - you're occupying the wrong place, you're protesting the wrong thing.

When my own son is going through what he goes through, coming back, I can certainly relate with other families, who kind of fill these ramifications of some PTSD.

In politics there are some candidates who use change to promote their careers, and then there are those like John McCain who use their careers to promote change.

Ground Zero mosque supporters, doesn't it stab you in the heart, as it does ours, throughout the heartland? Peaceful Muslims, please refudiate.

Well, I'd rather choose to be beautiful, um, because, to be beautiful it's natural. But being smart you can learn... you can learn, um, a lot of things... a lot of things from the experience... you can learn from a lot of things being smart.