"[I]t's absolutely critical that we have a more informed debate on foreign and national-security policy than we've had…"

"[On the Tea Party movement] I like it because their view of government is essentially the same as mine, and I like it…"

"Appearance only takes you so far."

"[Recalling George H. W. Bush's Secretary of State James Baker:] [T]he best secretary of state since Dean Acheson. I s…"

"[Obama] will be very good at that point at pretending to be the commander-in-chief. We have to have a Republican who …"

"I've heard over and over that people don't vote on the basis of foreign policy."

"[A]s I followed his [candidate Barack Obama] obsession with restructuring our entire domestic way of life, it became …"

"People have said to me, "Well, if you ran you might get more speaking appearances, and you could sell another book." …"

"[Recalling Bill Clinton, a Yale University classmate] I remember him as very gregarious, never in class, always talki…"

"What's needed in this next campaign is to say, with clarity, why a pro-individual-liberty, small-government perspecti…"