You know the one thing that's wrong with this country? Everyone gets a chance to have their fair say.

I take full responsability...for what we did. It was the right thing to do.

There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America.

Only the police should have handguns.

If the personal freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution inhibit the government's ability to govern the people, we should look to limit those guarantees.

Profound and powerful forces are shaking and remaking our world. And the urgent question of our time is whether we can make change our friend and not our enemy.

When I first came to Washington in the 1960s, even at the height of the Vietnam War, until the end there in '68 there was a certain climate of cooperation. And then in the late sixties and in through the seventies, politics began getting more mean. And then from the eighties on it seemed to be institutionalized, this personal attack business. And I just hate it.